Pictures show the first coronavirus patients arriving at the new Wuhan hospital China panic-built in 10 days
The patients were transported by negative pressure isolation ambulances, according to the China Daily.Negative pressure isolation systems are commonly used to transport infected patients during an epidemic..
Images, obtained by the Associated Press, show medical staff in protective suits pushing people in wheelchairs up a makeshift ramp and into the pre-fabricated structure.Hubei province, the epicenter of the outbreak, announced Tuesday that coronavirus fatalities there had risen to 414 after 64 new deaths,
The virus has killed almost 500 people and infected some 23,000 since it first emerged in December at a market in Wuhan.The World Health Organization has declared the epidemic a global health emergency, as the first deaths outside of China were confirmed last weekend,Medical staff are preparing for patients to be admitted to the Huoshenshan hospital.
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