The Chinese city of Wuhan, the centre of the coronavirus outbreak, has begun the ambitious task of building a 1,000-bed hospital in just 10 days to treat victims of the epidemic. In 2003, during the Sars outbreak 7,000 workers in Beijing built the Xiaotangshan hospital in the northern suburbs in just a week. What are the symptoms of the Wuhan coronavirus? The key concerns are how transmissible this new coronavirus is between people and what proportion become severely ill and end up in hospital. Administrators at Wuhan university people’s hospital set up a group chat on the popular WeChat messaging app to coordinate donations.

Source: The Guardian January 24, 2020 12:15 UTC