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Messages Superfast hospital in Wuhan ready of support PLA sends medical pour in teams; 2nd facility to open by midweek from world
By WANG XIAODONG in Wuhan By CAO DESHENG and ZHAO LEI in Beijing [email protected]
A 1,000bed hospital in Wuhan, International support for China’s Hubei province, will begin receiving efforts in fighting the novel coronavi highly contagious pneumonia rus has continued to pour in, with patients on Monday, less than 10 countries from around the world days after construction began. offering sympathy and medical The new facility will ease the assistance and calling for an objec shortage of beds in the city resulting tive and rational evaluation of the from an increasing number of outbreak. patients infected with the novel cor In a recent message to President onavirus. Xi Jinping, Russian President Vlad Medical personnel from the Peo imir Putin offered sympathy to the ple’s Liberation Army will take over Chinese families suffering pain and the new Huoshenshan Hospital, loss from the epidemic. with a total of 1,400 expected to start Putin said the Russian people receiving and treating patients on stand ready to offer assistance to Monday. their Chinese friends and that gov A second special hospital for the ernment departments in Russia will treatment of the novel coronavirus maintain close coordination with — Leishenshan Hospital — is under their counterparts in China to elimi construction in Wuhan. It is expect nate the common threat both coun ed to be completed on Wednesday tries are facing. and start receiving patients the fol He expressed faith that under Xi’s lowing day. leadership China will curb the The military assistance was spread of the virus through rigorous approved by President Xi Jinping, A medical worker in a People’s Liberation Army unit gives a thumbsup upon her arrival at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in Hubei measures and keep losses to a mini who is also general secretary of the province on Sunday. Eight PLA aircraft landed with 795 personnel and 58 metric tons of needed supplies. CHEN XIAODONG / FOR CHINA DAILY mum. Communist Party of China Central In a letter to Xi on Saturday, Dem Committee and chairman of the ocratic People’s Republic of Korea Central Military Commission. Inside The majority of the 1,400 medical fessional consultation. New cases have also been reported top leader Kim Jongun extended Huoshenshan Hospital, with a personnel who will treat patients in Many personnel involved in this in other countries. his sympathies to China over the floor area of 25,000 square meters, See more, page 3, 4, 7 the hospital come from hospitals operation, the largest mobilization The number of confirmed cases outbreak and offered support for will deal primarily with patients Editorial, page 9 administered by the PLA Joint of the PLA’s medical forces since the rose to 14,380 on the Chinese main the country’s efforts to prevent and who have confirmed coronavirus Logistic Support Force, with others devastating earthquake in Sichuan land on Saturday, including 304 control the disease. infection. It is a copy of Beijing Xiao Construction of Huoshenshan from PLA Ground Force Medical province in May 2008, are experi deaths, according to the National Kim, who is also chairman of the tangshan Hospital, which was built Hospital, in suburban Wuhan, for University, PLA Navy Medical Uni enced in handling infectious diseas Health Commission. Hubei, the Workers’ Party of Korea, said the in seven days in a Beijing suburb in mally started on Jan 25 to cope with versity and PLA Air Force Medical es because they took part in fights hardesthit province in the out WPK, the people of the DPRK and April 2003 during the outbreak of the rapidly increasing number of peo University. against the 2003 SARS outbreak in break, reported 9,074 confirmed he himself are sympathetic to Chi severe acute respiratory syndrome. ple infected with the coronavirus. At Fifteen experts from the PLA Cen China and the Ebola epidemic in cases as of Saturday, including 294 na’s suffering. He expressed strong Its purpose was exclusively to treat the peak of the massive construction ter for Disease Control and Preven western Africa in 2014. deaths, the provincial health com faith that the Communist Party of SARS patients, and it played a key project, more than 4,000 workers tion and the PLA Academy of Since the outbreak of the novel mission said on Sunday morning. China, along with the Chinese gov role in prevention and control of the and about 1,000 construction Military Science’s Military Medical coronavirus in Wuhan in December, ernment and people, will win the deadly disease. machines and trucks were on the site. Institute will join them to offer pro infections have leaped across China. See Hospital, page 3 battle against the virus under Xi’s leadership. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said it’s admirable how Chinese leaders have efficiently Travel, work pattern changes advised dealt with the outbreak, and the country’s people have shown great By XU WEI working hours, the meeting also key materials will be established to courage. Belarus will provide medi [email protected] underscored the need to ensure prioritize the transport of grain, cal supplies to help the Chinese peo people’s ability to return to work in vegetables and coal for power gen ple fight the virus, he said. A meeting led by Premier Li a timely manner in areas related to eration. Nepal President Bidhya Devi Keqiang on Sunday called for epidemic control, public affairs The statement also highlighted Bhandari highly commended Chi flexible work arrangements to and any businesses related to the the need to ensure smooth logistics na’s extraordinary efforts and said help reduce largescale flows of national economy. for wholesalers so that supermar her country appreciates and sup people that can spread the novel Key groups, such as migrant kets can replenish their stocks in a ports Chinese leaders’ work. She also coronavirus, and it reiterated the workers, should be guided to timely manner. thanked China for protecting Nepa importance of guiding various return to work in groups after the The meeting also highlighted the lese nationals inside its borders. sectors to adopt such arrange end of the holiday, a statement stark shortages of medical resour In a letter to Xi on Saturday, Azer ments. released after the meeting said. ces in Hubei province and Wuhan, baijan President Ilham Aliyev said Employees at a factory in Taizhou, Jiangsu province, work The meeting of the leading It called for local authorities to the provincial capital. that, in these temporary tough around the clock to produce masks to replenish supplies in the group of the Communist Party of accurately grasp the supply and It is important to build hospitals times, the people of Azerbaijan fight against the novel coronavirus. TANG DEHONG / FOR CHINA DAILY China Central Committee on cop demand situation regarding and increase beds at a quicker pace stand in solidarity with the friendly ing with the pneumoniacausing materials for fighting the out and boost support for medical people of China, and his country virus called for businesses and gov break, including pharmaceuticals, workers, the statement said, add stands ready to provide any assist SUPPLIERS WORKING ernmentaffiliated institutions to protective gear and sterilizers. ing that the country will send more ance it can. avoid peak hours in resuming work The government must adopt highcaliber doctors and nurses to HARD TO STAY and to allow people to work from effective measures to support support Hubei. See Sympathy, page 3 home after the Spring Festival holi businesses in returning produc The province’s demand for pro AHEAD OF OUTBREAK day. tion to full capacity and further tective masks and gowns will also ◆ The State Council had already boosting it. be made a priority, it said. INSIDE extended the weeklong Spring Fes The supply of necessities for dai As of Saturday, the Chinese Some care centers on front lines have tival holiday to Monday to reduce ly life must be stepped up, with mainland had 14,380 confirmed Chinese nearly run out of surgical masks crowds. The holiday traditionally measures to resume operations of cases of infection from the novel sees hundreds of millions of people key producers of grain, oil, food coronavirus, with 304 people dead investors By LIU KUN in Wuhan, travel around the country to visit processing and energy, the state and another 2,110 in serious condi ZHANG KUN in Shanghai their families. ment said. tion, according to the National chase Indian and HOU LIQIANG in Beijing In addition to its call for flexible A green channel for the supply of Health Commission. startups u Shengrong’s medi Business, p13 cal supply factory has been in opera tion for more than which features the most impor Fringe laboratory leak theory debunked twoW decades. It’s routine for the tant meal of the year in the coun Shanghai company to halt business try. By ZHANG ZHIHAO has nothing to do with the lab”. biology journal repository. during the Chinese New Year, or As the virus continues to spread [email protected] Shi was the lead scientist in the In a twitter post commenting on Spring Festival, holiday. This year, across the country, news is circu discovery that the novel coronavi the paper, David Liu, a chemistry however, the routine was broken. lating that some hospitals on the A scientist from the Wuhan Insti rus can enter cells through the professor at Harvard University, With most of his 163 workers front lines fighting the contagion tute of Virology of the Chinese ACE2 receptors and may have origi said: “The mere claim that such not having yet returned to Shang have nearly run out of surgical Academy of Sciences has debunked nated in bats. short inserts support nCoV origins hai from their family reunions, Wu masks. Wu’s factory is just one a recent conspiracy theory that Her comments came after Indian ‘unlikely to be fortuitous in nature’ decided to mobilize all available example of China’s medical prod claimed the novel coronavirus was scientists recently published a non is already highly suspect.” employees, including cleaners and uct suppliers that have been mak manufactured and escaped from peerreviewed paper suggesting The term nCoV refers to the nov cooks, to resume mask production ing allout efforts to produce the institute’s most advanced bio that scientists had artificially insert el coronavirus. on Jan 21, three days before the urgently needed items. containment facility. ed genes from the HIV virus into the “This is a classic case of search © 2020 China Daily start of Spring Festival, as he antic As of Saturday, the virus had Shi Zhengli, a researcher from the coronavirus, thus making it suscep ing for lost keys only under a lamp All Rights Reserved A member of the ipated the grim situation when the claimed more than 300 lives in institute, said on social media on tible to antiHIV treatments. post,” Liu said. “A fearful world Vol.24 — No. 7096 Asia News Network novel coronavirus first broke out. China, the National Health Com Sunday that the virus was the result The paper was immediately does not need to fuel conspiracy Since then, the company has mission said. of “nature punishing the uncivilized panned by experts around the theories with bad analyses.” been in production nonstop, even habits and customs of humans”, and world and was removed on Sun on Chinese New Year’s Eve — See Masks, page 2 she is willing to “bet my life that it day from the server of bioRxiv, a See Conspiracy, page 3