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China Orders Up 3,000 Hospital Beds in Tibet on 28 Covid Cases

  • Mountainous region builds facilities in days as outbreak grows
  • Economic Daily commentary urges China not to be ‘war weary’
People queue to test for Covid-19 in Lhasa, Tibet, on Aug. 9.

People queue to test for Covid-19 in Lhasa, Tibet, on Aug. 9.

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China warned about the spread of Covid-19 in several parts of the country, as authorities’ quest to continue wiping out the virus saw three makeshift hospitals hastily erected in Tibet, which is seeing its first cases since the start of the pandemic. 

The new facilities provide 2,000 beds in the capital, Lhasa, and 1,000 in the city of Shigatse. As part of its ongoing Covid Zero strategy, China mandates that all positive cases and their close contacts be isolated, often in government-built temporary hospitals.