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Shijiazhuang, North China's Hebei Province, the epicenter of the most recent COVID-19 outbreak, began building 3,000 makeshift housing units to be used as quarantine venues for COVID-19 patients on Wednesday amid surging infections.

Hebei reported another 81 newly confirmed cases and its first death registered on Wednesday, health authorities said on Thursday. 

The construction site of the centralized quarantine venue is about 500 mu (33.3 hectares) in size and will provide 3,000 housing units for COVID-19 patients.

According to the integrated housing providers based in the city of Tangshan, each unit is 18 square meters in area and uses a light steel structure, which has the advantages of convenient transportation, rapid installation, and recyclability.

Reporters saw some 100 people and dozens of pieces of engineering equipment enter the empty land site on Wednesday. When China Railway 14th Bureau Group received the order to build the housing units on Wednesday, they immediately started work at the construction site on the same day in Shijiazhuang's Zhengding county. 

After the completion of the infrastructure, 3,000 integrated housing units will be quickly assembled on the site. These integrated houses are being shipped from the city of Tangshan to Zhengding county and are expected to arrive within three days.

The housing units have sufficient supporting facilities, water and electricity pipelines, and can be put into use immediately when they reach Zhengding. The parts can be assembled by skilled workers in one day. 

The integrated housing providers from Tangshan took part in the building of Wuhan's Huoshenshan makeshift hospital in early 2020.

Since Monday, after the clustered infections of the district's Xiaoguozhuang village turned the entire district into a high-risk zone, the local authority of Shijiazhuang started moving 20,000 villagers from 12 villages of the epidemic-stricken Gaocheng district to other townships for quarantine.

Source:globaltimes

Editor: Crystal H

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