China rushes to build coronavirus quarantine center for 4,000 as it battles local outbreaks

China is racing to build a quarantine center to house 4,000 people in the northern city of Shijiazhuang, the epicenter of the country's latest outbreak of the coronavirus, which Beijing has largely contained at an enormous cost to its 1.3 billion people.While much of the world is reporting record numbers of infections, hospitalizations, deaths and disruptions related to the coronavirus, China, the original site of the virus, has avoided a massive resurgence alongside overseeing an economic revival. But it has done so by mandating mass surveillance and periodic lockdowns of entire cities and towns at the first report of new…