China At least 4 people have died, 33 were trapped after a hotel collapsed quarantine a contact with patient Covid-19 in Fujian province yesterday.

"Rescuers pulled 38 survivors out of the rubble, five of them in critical condition. There were 71 people in the hotel at the time the building collapsed," the Ministry of Emergency Management said. Quoc today announced.

Xinjia 5-storey hotel in Licheng District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province collapsed at 19:30 yesterday. This site has recently been converted into a facility to isolate close contacts of nCoV-infected patients, also one of the two quarantine points in Lich Thanh district.

"I just had dinner and suddenly heard a loud bang. I thought it was an explosion. When I ran to the balcony I saw the entire hotel had collapsed," a witness said.

800 firefighters and 200 volunteers were present at the scene, along with 11 search and rescue teams and 7 operational dogs to locate those still trapped.

Fujian provincial government said as of March 6, the whole province had 296 nCoV infections and 10,819 people were monitored after close contact with patients. China today announced an additional 44 new cases and 27 deaths, all in Hubei province. The country currently has 80,695 people infected with nCoV and 3,097 deaths.

Covid-19, which originated in Wuhan in December 2019, has appeared in 102 countries and territories, causing more than 106,000 people to be infected with nCoV, nearly 3,600 people died and nearly 59,000 cases have recovered.