70+ People Trapped After Coronavirus Quarantine Hotel Collapses
Over 70 people were left trapped after the Xinjia hotel, used to quarantine coronavirus patients, collapsed Saturday night (local time) in Southeastern, China.
By 9:30 p.m. local time, at least 33 people had been rescued from the debris, with another 10 saved over the next three hours. The hotel was located in Quanzhou, a southern province of Fujian about 600 miles from Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak; which has killed more than 3,000 people.
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While reports have yet to be updated as to why or how the building collapsed, authorities and officials of the Ministry of Emergency Management have confirmed there are no fatalities.
One woman told Beijing News that relatives, including her sister were trapped in the building. She said, “I can’t contact them, they’re not answering their phones. I’m under quarantine too [at another hotel] and I’m very worried, I don’t know what to do. They were healthy, they took their temperatures every day, and the tests showed that everything was normal.”
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#Update: The Ministry of Emergency Management has sent a team to the site of Xinjia hotel, which collapsed in E China's Quanzhou on Sat evening, to assist local rescue work. The hotel is a medical observation site for close contacts with #COVID19 patients. https://t.co/44iEe8I1SV pic.twitter.com/L2ADWCrXr9
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) March 7, 2020