China Wuhan City is urgently building a second field hospital to cope with the acute coronary pneumonia caused by the Corona virus.

The second hospital is designed to have 1,300 beds and is expected to be completed within half a month. Meanwhile, the first field hospital is being built near a resort complex on the outskirts of Wuhan, which is scheduled to be completed by February 3.

In 2003, Beijing implemented a similar project when the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) pandemic broke out. Xiaotangshan Hospital on the northern outskirts of the capital was built in just a week. Within two months, this facility helped treat 1/7 of SARS patients nationwide.

The outbreak of Corona virus pneumonia (nCoV) first appeared in Wuhan city, capital of Hubei province. Up to now, 41 people have been killed and 1,300 people infected throughout China. Symptoms include fever, shortness of breath, and cough. There is currently no vaccine for the virus that can be spread from person to person.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared it an "emergency in China" but has not yet been an international concern, saying that most of the death victims are elderly and have suffered from many ailments before. when infected with nCoV. Outside of China, outbreaks have occurred in Thailand, Japan, Korea, the USA, Singapore, Nepal, France and Vietnam.