About 70 people have trapped after a quarantine hotel collapsed in China.
The victims were said to be quarantined in a hostel as a result of the coronavirus epidemic in the city of Quanzhou, China.
It was reported that almost 40 of the 70 have been pulled from the rubble of the five-storey Xinjia Hotel.
Videos posted on social media on Saturday March 7th, 2020 showed emergency workers combing through the building’s wreckage in the southern province of Fujian.
It was gathered that the hotel was being used as a quarantine facility to monitor people who had had close contact with coronavirus patients.
The hotel reportedly opened in 2018 and had 80 guest rooms.
Meanwhile, an official from the Ministry of Emergency Management confirmed that a team had been sent to the scene.
“Immediately the incident happened, we sent a team to the scene to assist local rescue workers,” the official noted.
A woman disclosed that relatives including her sister had been under quarantine there.
“I can’t contact them, they’re not answering their phones,” she said.
“I’m under quarantine too at another hotel and I’m very worried, I don’t know what to do. They were healthy. They took their temperatures every day, and the tests showed that everything was normal,” she added.
As of Friday, Fujian province had 296 cases of coronavirus. Meanwhile 10,819 people have been placed under observation because they have been in close contact with someone infected.
