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    China Hurriedly Building Quarantine Center In Effort To Contain Wuhan Virus

    Hundreds of workers were told to get the center near the city of Wuhan built in under a week as authorities cope with the new viral pneumonia that has killed 26 people and infected 876 others.
    by Emily Feng Jan 24, 2020 2 minutes
    A man holding an umbrella walks past excavators at the construction site where a new quarantine and treatment center is being built to treat patients of a new coronavirus.

    Construction workers in China were scrambling to build a makeshift quarantine and treatment facility on the outskirts of Wuhan, the epicenter of a rapidly spreading new viral pneumonia that has killed 26 people and infected 876 others in the country.

    Taking a page from the plan Beijing developed to combat

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