An exterior view of an under-construction temporary hospital, converted from an office building, in Suifenhe, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, April 10, 2020. (Xinhua/Qi Hongxin)
By Friday, the city of Suifenhe had reported a total of 173 imported cases of COVID-19 from Russia.
HARBIN, April 11 (Xinhua) -- A medical team that departed Saturday morning for the city of Suifenhe, at the China-Russia border in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, will aid a temporary hospital due to the mounting pressure of imported COVID-19 cases.
The 24 medics, who assisted on the front lines of the battle against the new virus in central China's Hubei Province, the hardest-hit province in China, returned to the city of Mudanjiang on March 21. They have recently ended their 14-day quarantine and are the first medical team to support the temporary hospital, according to Zhang Xiaoyu, head of the temporary hospital.
By Friday, the city of Suifenhe had reported a total of 173 imported cases of COVID-19 from Russia.
So far, the renovation work of the temporary hospital has been completed and medical equipment has been delivered from different places to the hospital, according to Zhang.
A local hospital still has more than 100 beds to admit asymptomatic coronavirus carriers. And the temporary hospital, converted from an office building and providing more than 600 patient beds, will go into operation if necessary. ■
