the BEIJING A hotel in Quanzhou, in East China, used as a structure to quarantine the infected by the new coronavirus has collapsed. According to a report in China Daily, about seventy people are trapped under the rubble. There are 33 of those so far extracted lives. Rescuers are working to retrieve the other survivors.

The hotel Xinjia, which opened in 2018, it was 5 stories high and had a total of 80 rooms and was recently converted to observe the quarantine period additional provisions for the patients cured by the coronavirus. At the moment were not disclosed the causes of the collapse.

Hundreds of rescuers are working to pull people out and will continue throughout the night. The accident happened around 19.30 local time. “I can not contact them, do not respond to their phones,” said a relative of one of the people trapped by the press agency Reuters. “I, too, am in quarantine (in another hotel) and I am very worried, I don’t know what to do. They were healthy, they measured the temperature each day and the tests were negative”. Quanzhou, a city of 8 million inhabitants, is located in the province of Fujian, in the continental part of the strait of Taiwan. The Fujian province had 296 cases of coronavirus and 10.819 persons were placed under observation after they have been identified as possible infection. It is located about one thousand kilometers from Wuhan in Hubei province, where it began the global epidemic of COVID-19.

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