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In Wuhan, construction workers have become celebrities as their race to build two brand new hospitals in a week for victims of the coronavirus is live-streamed on Chinese TV.
Chinese state media reported this week that viewing figures on the live stream rose as high as 40 million. Chinese authorities have created two separate streams from the Huoshenshan and Leishenshan hospitals since work began on January 23 and 25 respectively.
It isn't the first time China has built a hospital in a week. In 2003, the Xiaotangshan Hospital in Beijing was constructed in just seven days to treat victims of the SARS virus, which swept the country. That facility is still in existence, and Chinese authorities are now considering re-opening it.