New 1,000-bed Wuhan hospital takes its first coronavirus patients

Facility was built in less than two weeks in city at the centre of the viral outbreak

The first coronavirus patients have arrived at a Chinese field hospital built from scratch in under two weeks at the frontline of the outbreak, state media said.

The 1,000-bed facility was built to relieve hospitals swamped with patients in Wuhan, the city of 11 million people in Hubei province. The national health emergency that has killed more people in China than the 2003 Sars outbreak.