BEIJING: China on Saturday finished building a 1,500-room hospital for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) patients to fight a surge in infections the government said are harder to contain and that it blamed on infected people or goods from abroad.
SPEEDY CONSTRUCTION Aerial photo taken on Jan. 16, 2021 shows the construction site of a centralized medical observation center in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China’s Hebei Province. XINHUA