WUHAN - Central China's Wuhan city has designated nine hospitals for pneumonia treatment and 61 fever clinics amid an increase in coronavirus-related pneumonia cases.A medical expert team has been set up, with 25 members from 10 provincial and municipal hospitals, according to the health commission.
The commission said local hospitals have stepped up efforts to control nosocomial infections, protect medical professionals and strengthened routine monitoring, with suspected cases receiving timely testing and treatment. "The patients got infected, respectively, after their family members travelled to Wuhan and were infected by the virus," Mr Zhong said during a media interview.The novel coronavirus infection was first reported in central China's Wuhan city, where 198 viral pneumonia cases have been confirmed.
He said the constant emergence of new cases at present indicated that the epidemic is still at its early stage.