Marshalling all of the compulsory and voluntary labour a one-party state can muster, the Fire God Mountain Hospital in Wuhan is touted to open by Saturday.
China State Construction photographs showed masked workers turning carparks into wards as the rest of the city was locked down.
Wuhan Construction's general manager of road and bridges, Zhang Chongxi, told state media that the hospitals will be built with 24-hour labour. Elsewhere, conditions in the city are deteriorating. Supermarkets are running out of produce, streets are desolate and residents have taken to calling out of apartments towering above the 11-million person city in unison in a show of solidarity.They are anxious, bored and restless. Empty hotels have taken to forcing staff to do group exercises in abandoned lobbies at the same time as overworked doctors collapse in virus-hit hospitals.
“We haven’t disclosed information in a timely manner and also did not use effective information to improve our work," Zhou Xianwang, the Mayor of Wuhan told state broadcaster CCTV.
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