These satellite images are provided by the China Land Observing Satellite Data Center. These images are the locations of two new COVID hospitals built in Wuhan, Hubei Province earlier in 2020. To counter the pandemic in Wuhan, the Chinese government decided to build two completely new infectious disease hospitals borrowing the experience from Xiaotangshan Hospital built during the SARS outbreak in 2003. The decision to build the first hospital, Huoshenshan Hospital was made on January 23. The construction began on January 25, and was completed on February 2. Shortly after the start of the construction of Huoshenshan Hospital, the second hospital, Leishenshan Hospital also began construction. Leishenshan Hospital was completed on February 6. The two hospitals had over 2,000 beds in total, they played a critical role in China's fight with the COVID-19 pandemic. These satellite images showed the huge effort China made and the Chinese people's confidence against COVID.
Source (in Chinese): https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_5842152
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