China builds hospital for coronavirus patients in 5 days as cases surge

China on Saturday finished building a 1,500-room hospital for COVID-19 patients to fight a surge in infections the government said are harder to contain and that it blamed on infected people or goods from abroad. The hospital is one of six with a total of 6,500 rooms being built in Nangong, south of Beijing in Hebei province, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Read more: Moderna vaccine approved: What we know about side effects, ingredients and doses China had largely contained the coronavirus that first was detected in the central city of Wuhan in late 2019 but has suffered a…