F1400 medical personnel from the Chinese military have been deployed to the first of two new infirmaries in the metropolis of Wuhan, which is severely affected by the new lung disease.
The Huoshenshan emergency hospital, which was built in just a week in a fast construction, is scheduled to open on Monday and has a capacity of 1000 beds, as the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday.
The staff also included many who had worked at the Sars pandemic in a similar makeshift hospital in Xiaotangshan, Beijing, 17 years ago. There are also experts involved in the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia.