In Wuhan, China, the temporary hospitals built in record time to cope with the coronavirus epidemic are now empty after all patients were discharged or transferred.
Silence reigns in the corridors of Wuhan's temporary hospitals, but for the first time since the start of the coronavirus epidemic this is good news: all patients have been discharged or transferred to other facilities.
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They were built in record time — one in fewer than ten days — at a moment when an outcome like this could barely have been imagined. To manage the high number of infections, more than 80,000 across the country, sixteen temporary structures had been converted into hospitals and for weeks they treated patients affected by the Sars-CoV-2 virus, responsible for the disease Covid-19.
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This measure made it possible to add 13,000 beds to the 5,000 already in existence and provided major support to the Chinese healthcare system, enabling more than 12,000 cases to be treated in the Wuhan area alone. From this point on, new patients will be assigned to designated hospitals, and the temporary ones will only be reopened in the event of an emergency.
The decision to close these emergency facilities comes on the same day that China recorded its lowest number of infections since the start of the epidemic: just 19 new cases.
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The total lockdown has borne fruit and the country is now preparing to slowly return to normality: some venues — including Disneyland and Ikea — have begun to reopen, and reports of an imminent reopening of some schools are starting to circulate.
