– A volunteer packs vegetables for residents of Huajin community Wuchang District of Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, Feb. 23, 2020. More than 10,000 people in Wuhan have applied for a volunteer project, shortly after its kick-off on Sunday morning. Authorities announced the project of recruiting volunteers to buy and […]
  • ttmrichter
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    3 years ago

    I lived through this (I live in Wuhan). The scale of the logistical operation to keep a city of 11 million people alive during a two-month lockdown is mind-boggling. And yet on top of that not only did they manage to do this for us, they also built two purpose-made hospitals in a matter of days: Huoshenshan (1000 beds, Jan23-Feb02) and Leishenshan (1500 beds, Jan25-Feb06) not to mention sixteen further treatment centres around the city.

    You want jaw-dropping? Here’s time lapse of (I think) Huoshenshan being constructed over ten days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJUaq6XhdLs