Makeshift hospitals reduce risks of new infections: epidemiologist

Simple hospitals and wards were set up because the priority in Wuhan in the early stage of the COVID-19 epidemic was to separate and to distinguish the infected people from healthy people, said Zhong Nanshan, China's leading epidemic control expert, in a recent video talk.

Zhong shared China’s experience in the fight against the coronavirus with Dr. Anita Simonds, the president-elect of the European Respiratory Society, in an online conversation early this month.