Reporter : Zhong Gusheng
Editor : Ming Xuan
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/b5/2020/02/21/a102782644.html
English Translation : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Image : A body temperature check area in Beijing. By Kevin Frayer / Getty Images
In the so-called "great situation" of the China Communist Party’s official epidemic data, the authorities in Beijing are said to be expanding Xiaotangshan Hospital with construction of more wards to cater to an overwhelming number of covid patients in the city.
Xiaotangshan Hospital was initially constructed and opened in 2003 to treat SARS patients.
Radio Free Asia quoted an anonymous source on 21 February 2020 and disclosed that the Xiaotangshan Infectious Diseases Hospital in Changping District has started the expansion project, which was undertaken by Beijing Construction Engineering Group. Many workers take turns to work.
In fact, as early as 28 January 2020, China media were informed that Xiaotangshan Hospital was being rebuilt, and Beijing Construction Engineering and Beijing Urban Construction is responsible for the construction. The report said that doctors had already settled in at that time and the hospital "is expected to reopen in the near future." However, Beijing officials have consistently refused to publicly acknowledge Xiaotangshan's expansion. However, there have been online videos showing that a large number of ambulance activities occurred near the hospital, and it is suspected that covid patients have been transferred to the hospital.
In less than a month, the Xiaotangshan Project changed from "reconstruction" to "expansion", indicating that the epidemic in Beijing is critical.
Xiaotangshan Hospital was urgently built in 2003 within 7 days. It can accommodate 1,000 beds and is dedicated to treating SARS patients from all over the country. Officials announced the removal of its SARS ward in 2010 and renamed it Xiaotangshan Rehabilitation Hospital in 2012.
Radio Free Asia quoted health care sources in Beijing as saying that at present Beijing's hospitals are overcrowded.
A nurse from a hospital in Beijing wrote to Radio Free Asia that the hospital's emergency ICU ward patients and observers who were hospitalized showed positive results in covid screening. The hospital wards were blocked and the emergency room beds were full. In addition, Peking Union Medical College Hospital tried to transfer five suspected patients to another hospital, but was rejected by the director of the other's infection department.
On 20 February, Fuxing Hospital affiliated to Beijing Capital Medical University and Peking University People's Hospital both announced the outbreak of cluster infection in the hospital. Fuxing Hospital has 36 confirmed diagnoses, including 8 doctors, 9 nurses and cleaners, 19 patients and their families. Outbreaks of the infections in the Department of Geriatrics and Nephrology of Peking University People's Hospital were caused by a couple who often visited their mother at the hospital, and more than 250 people had close contact with them.
Xicheng District, where Zhongnanhai is located, earlier announced a confirmed covid case and 69 government officials were isolated. On 21 February, the latest news from the Internet said that 52 of these 69 people were diagnosed with the infection.
According to several sources, Beijing has ordered the prevention and control to be upgraded to Wuhan level, and the Beijing medical team has stopped supporting Wuhan.
StayGate's Note:
As at 22 February 2020, Beijing has 399 confirmed covid cases including four deaths. The second-hardest hit province in China after Hubei is Guangdong with 1339 confirmed cases including five deaths.
Outside China, there are five deaths out of Iran's 28 confirmed covid cases while Italy has reported two deaths.
Refs : https://ncov.dxy.cn/ncovh5/view/pneumonia, CNA.
Editor : Ming Xuan
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/b5/2020/02/21/a102782644.html
English Translation : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Image : A body temperature check area in Beijing. By Kevin Frayer / Getty Images
In the so-called "great situation" of the China Communist Party’s official epidemic data, the authorities in Beijing are said to be expanding Xiaotangshan Hospital with construction of more wards to cater to an overwhelming number of covid patients in the city.
Xiaotangshan Hospital was initially constructed and opened in 2003 to treat SARS patients.
Radio Free Asia quoted an anonymous source on 21 February 2020 and disclosed that the Xiaotangshan Infectious Diseases Hospital in Changping District has started the expansion project, which was undertaken by Beijing Construction Engineering Group. Many workers take turns to work.
In fact, as early as 28 January 2020, China media were informed that Xiaotangshan Hospital was being rebuilt, and Beijing Construction Engineering and Beijing Urban Construction is responsible for the construction. The report said that doctors had already settled in at that time and the hospital "is expected to reopen in the near future." However, Beijing officials have consistently refused to publicly acknowledge Xiaotangshan's expansion. However, there have been online videos showing that a large number of ambulance activities occurred near the hospital, and it is suspected that covid patients have been transferred to the hospital.
In less than a month, the Xiaotangshan Project changed from "reconstruction" to "expansion", indicating that the epidemic in Beijing is critical.
Xiaotangshan Hospital was urgently built in 2003 within 7 days. It can accommodate 1,000 beds and is dedicated to treating SARS patients from all over the country. Officials announced the removal of its SARS ward in 2010 and renamed it Xiaotangshan Rehabilitation Hospital in 2012.
Radio Free Asia quoted health care sources in Beijing as saying that at present Beijing's hospitals are overcrowded.
A nurse from a hospital in Beijing wrote to Radio Free Asia that the hospital's emergency ICU ward patients and observers who were hospitalized showed positive results in covid screening. The hospital wards were blocked and the emergency room beds were full. In addition, Peking Union Medical College Hospital tried to transfer five suspected patients to another hospital, but was rejected by the director of the other's infection department.
On 20 February, Fuxing Hospital affiliated to Beijing Capital Medical University and Peking University People's Hospital both announced the outbreak of cluster infection in the hospital. Fuxing Hospital has 36 confirmed diagnoses, including 8 doctors, 9 nurses and cleaners, 19 patients and their families. Outbreaks of the infections in the Department of Geriatrics and Nephrology of Peking University People's Hospital were caused by a couple who often visited their mother at the hospital, and more than 250 people had close contact with them.
Xicheng District, where Zhongnanhai is located, earlier announced a confirmed covid case and 69 government officials were isolated. On 21 February, the latest news from the Internet said that 52 of these 69 people were diagnosed with the infection.
According to several sources, Beijing has ordered the prevention and control to be upgraded to Wuhan level, and the Beijing medical team has stopped supporting Wuhan.
StayGate's Note:
As at 22 February 2020, Beijing has 399 confirmed covid cases including four deaths. The second-hardest hit province in China after Hubei is Guangdong with 1339 confirmed cases including five deaths.
Outside China, there are five deaths out of Iran's 28 confirmed covid cases while Italy has reported two deaths.
Refs : https://ncov.dxy.cn/ncovh5/view/pneumonia, CNA.
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