China has finished building a 1,500-room hospital for Covid-19 patients in five days to fight a surge in infections in a city south of Beijing, state media reported.

The hospital is one of six with a total of 6,500 rooms being built in Nangong in Hebei province, the Xinhua News Agency said. All are due to be completed within the next week.

China, which largely contained the spread of the coronavirus, has suffered hundreds of infections this month in Nangong and the Hebei provincial capital of Shijiazhuang, southwest of the Chinese capital.

Nationwide, the National Health Commission reported 130 new confirmed cases — 90 of those in Hebei.

In this aerial photo, workers build a large centralised quarantine facility in Shijiazhuang in northern China's Hebei Province on Jan 14. — AP
In this aerial photo, workers build a large centralised quarantine facility in Shijiazhuang in northern China's Hebei Province on Jan 14. — AP

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