There are currently 830 confirmed cases in China, as the number of deaths has increased from 15 to 41. Another 180 cases of the virus were confirmed in Hubei, said the provincial health authority. This raises the total number of confirmed Wuhan coronavirus cases to 1,072 in mainland China.
The outbreak began in Wuhan, home to around 11 million people. Hospitals in the city have been flooded with concerned residents and pharmacies are running out of medicine. Authorities in China have imposed indefinite travel restrictions on tens of millions of people across 11 cities in an unprecedented effort to contain the spread, as hospitals at the epicenter of the outbreak struggle to handle a surge in new patients.
The weeklong Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, which began Friday, has led to concerns that the outbreak could quickly accelerate, as hundreds of millions of people travel across the country to visit friends and relatives.
Meanwhile, according to state media, the new hospital will contain about 1,000 beds.
Video footage and photos posted online by Chinese state media shows diggers already at the site, which has an area of 25,000 square metres (269,000 square feet).
This hospital if completed within six days, will beat the record of the Beijing Hospital built in seven days, during the SARS epidemic in 2003.
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