Video Footage of Hundreds of Patients Flooded Hospital in China
Video footage shared where hundreds of patients flooded one of the hospitals in china amidst the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
In a previous report, dozens of more cases have been confirmed by health authorities across China and some foreign countries. In lieu of this, China had ordered the shutdown of outbound public transport from Wuhan.
The virus originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in Hubei late last year and spread to Chinese cities including Beijing and Shanghai, as well as the United States, Thailand, South Korea, and Japan. Authorities urged residents of Wuhan not to travel outside of the city unless absolutely necessary.
Recently, video footage has purported to show hundreds of people filling a Chinese hospital to the brim amid an outbreak of a deadly new virus.
According to the report of Dailymail, a leading Chinese virologist who helped tackle the SARS epidemic in Asia in 2003 has warned that the situation in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, ‘is already uncontrollable’.
Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province with a population of 11million, has been quarantined since yesterday. The local government today said that the city was witnessing a surge in the number of its fever patients and that hospitals were running out of beds.
Authorities have reportedly ordered a state-run construction company to build a dedicated hospital in six days to treat patients diagnosed with coronavirus. Unverified footage posted by a blogger on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent to Twitter, appears to show the corridor and lobby of a hospital crammed with hundreds of mask-donning patients waiting to see the doctor.
Health experts said that the peak of the outbreak was yet to come. And it is predicted that the health crisis would worsen and the number of patients would spike in February.
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