A medical staff wears protective goggles before going into the intensive care unit in Three Gorges Central Hospital in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Feb. 2, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao)
BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- China has stepped up efforts to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), building more hospitals and shoring up businesses. Here are the latest developments:
People work inside the "Wuhan Livingroom", which is converted into a hospital to receive patients infected with the novel coronavirus, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 4, 2020. (Xinhua/Cheng Min)
-- Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province plans to convert another eight existing venues, including gymnasiums, exhibition centers and sports centers, into hospitals to receive patients infected with the novel coronavirus.
Before leaving for Hubei Province, medical team members take an oath in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, Feb. 4, 2020. A medical team comprised of 100 clinical nurses in Fujian left for Wuhan on Tuesday to aid the novel coronavirus control efforts there. (Xinhua/Wei Peiquan)
-- More medical teams are rushing to Hubei Province to aid novel coronavirus control. A team of 138 medical workers from hospitals in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region flew to Hubei late Tuesday to join the fight against the epidemic.
A staff member disinfects the facilities on a bullet train in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Feb. 2, 2020. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)
-- Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality has rolled out 20 measures to support small and medium-sized enterprises affected by coronavirus outbreak by reducing their burdens on loans, rent and social security payments.
The cured patients wave goodbye to medical staff in the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, Feb. 4, 2020. Five pneumonia patients infected with the novel coronavirus were cured and discharged from the hospital on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Li An)
-- The number of new suspected cases of the novel coronavirus infection on the Chinese mainland dropped for the second consecutive day on Tuesday.
-- A total of 892 patients infected with the novel coronavirus had been discharged from hospital after recovery by the end of Tuesday. ■
