The hospital is one of six with a total of 6,500 rooms being built in Nangong, south of Beijing in Hebei province, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

As new battlefronts against the coronavirus opened around the globe, recovered patients left China’s hospitals and isolation wards, freeing up beds where the illness has hit hardest.

Huoshenshan Hospital and a second 1,500-bed facility due to open this week were built by construction crews who are working around the clock in Wuhan, the central city where the outbreak was first detected in December.