COVID-hit Shanghai builds makeshift hospital in 9 days

(ECNS) -- A mobile cabin hospital with a capacity of 2,000 beds has been built by the China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Group in Shanghai to thwart the latest COVID-19 outbreak.

Hit hard by a COVID-19 resurgence, Shanghai raced against time to build the makeshift hospital within nine days. More than 1,400 people worked around the clock to complete the project.

Epidemic prevention and control measures have also been strictly implemented at the site and nearly 20,000 antigen and nucleic acid tests have been conducted.

Shanghai registered 322 confirmed locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and 19,660 local asymptomatic carriers on Wednesday, the health commission said Thursday.