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In China, ten people were killed after a hotel used as a quarantine facility amid the coronavirus outbreak collapsed in Fujian province.
Official media reported today that around 71 people were trapped in the hotel that collapsed yesterday in Quanzhou city of the province. The hotel was being used to quarantine and observe people who had come to the province during the novel coronavirus prevention and control and had come in contact with the virus patients.
A preliminary investigation showed that the hotel was being decorated when the incident happened and the owner of the building has been put under police control. Over 1,000 fire fighters, police officers and medics have been deployed to join the rescue work.
The Ministry of Emergency Management has sent a work team to Quanzhou to help with the rescue and investigate the cause of the collapse.