{"id":1405659,"date":"2022-03-28T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405659"},"modified":"2022-03-28T19:00:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T23:00:05","slug":"coronavirus-china-builds-19-makeshift-hospitals-in-northern-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coronavirus-china-builds-19-makeshift-hospitals-in-northern-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: China Builds 19 &#039;Makeshift Hospitals&#039; in Northern Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcoronavirus-china-builds-19-makeshift-hospitals-in-northern-province%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405659&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Chinese Communist Party authorities have ordered local officials in China\u2019s northeastern Jilin province, which borders North Korea and Russia, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1256964.shtml\">build<\/a> nearly two dozen \u201cmakeshift hospitals\u201d over the past month to help address Jilin\u2019s exploding Chinese coronavirus caseload, the state-run <em>Global Times<\/em> reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJilin Province has built 19 makeshift hospitals in a bid to admit surging COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] patients as of Monday,\u201d the newspaper reported on March 28.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Jilin\u2019s \u201cmakeshift hospitals\u201d have also been referred to as \u201ctemporary hospitals\u201d and \u201cquarantine centers\u201d by other Chinese state media outlets in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Xinhua, China\u2019s official state press agency, reported on March 14 that construction had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/20220314\/0a79f4002dde4a4d9706f5c75e3ed8a2\/c.html\">begun<\/a> a day earlier on a \u201cquarantine center in Jilin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCovering an area of about 430,000 square meters, the project is designed with 6,000 quarantine rooms,\u201d Xinhua detailed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The news agency\u2019s report included several photos of the medical facility\u2019s building site taken on March 13 in Jilin city, which is the second-largest city in Jilin province. The images appeared to show Chinese state laborers breaking ground on the project.<\/p>\n<p>Jilin\u2019s provincial government announced on March 15 that it had\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/20220315\/7457d3d8e0834f4e9013a9685ba67f67\/c.html\">opened<\/a> six \u201ctemporary hospitals\u201d earlier that same day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFive hospitals are in Jilin City, the area most impacted [by the Chinese coronavirus epidemic], and one has been built in the provincial capital of Changchun,\u201d Zhang Li, the deputy director of Jilin\u2019s provincial health commission, told Xinhua at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlong with seven medical institutions vacated for the resurgence, there are over 20,000 beds available for COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] cases in the province,\u201d the state news agency revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Communist Party Vice Premier Sun Chunlan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/20220326\/dcbe3ba3b8804799b6d6a89358ed41c3\/c.html\">referred<\/a> to Jilin\u2019s \u201cmakeshift hospitals\u201d on March 25 in a stern edict demanding local Party officials enforce \u201cstringent measures\u201d on the province\u2019s populace to curb viral transmission.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHigh-quality screening should be conducted on a daily basis, and all those who test positive should be sent immediately to designated or temporary hospitals,\u201d Sun said.<\/p>\n<p>The Communist Party leader\u2019s statement suggested Jilin residents, most of whom were already under strict lockdown orders, were being forcibly shipped to state-run quarantine facilities if they tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in her March 25 statement, Sun described Jilin province\u2019s epidemic situation as \u201carduous\u201d and in need of \u201ca more swift response\u201d by local health officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWork is needed,\u201d Sun acknowledged of Jilin\u2019s coronavirus protocol.<\/p>\n<p>The notice marked a rare admission of poor performance by a top-ranking Chinese Communist Party official. Jilin governmental authorities have seemingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/17\/china-returns-to-2020-style-makeshift-hospitals-for-coronavirus-but-claims-mild-cases-fueling-outbreak\/\">failed<\/a> to contain the province\u2019s latest epidemic of the Chinese coronavirus since it began earlier this month, allowing it to mushroom into a public health crisis requiring federal-level reinforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.cn\/english\/20220317\/8b3e843692664940ae9dbaf480e305b6\/c.html\">disciplined<\/a>\u201d 16 local Party officials in Jilin province \u201cfor their inadequate epidemic prevention efforts\u201d on March 17, according to Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the officials, including the head of the municipal health commission in Changchun, the provincial capital, were removed from their posts, while the others received punishments,\u201d the Chinese state press agency revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Jilin province documented \u201c1,086 confirmed [symptomatic] cases and 907 asymptomatic cases\u201d on March 28, according to the <em>Global Times<\/em>. This figure was nearly the same as the province\u2019s daily Chinese coronavirus caseload on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/china-registers-over-1000-new-daily-covid-cases-fourth-day-2022-03-16\/\">March 15<\/a> (1,456), indicating Jilin\u2019s epidemic of the disease has yet to level off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Communist Party authorities have ordered local officials in China\u2019s northeastern Jilin province, which borders North Korea and Russia, to build nearly two dozen \u201cmakeshift hospitals\u201d over the past month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}