Mobile cabin hospital opens for COVID-19 patients in Guangxi's Beihai city

The first mobile cabin hospital, a temporary community isolation and treatment facility for COVID-19 patients, came into use on Tuesday morning to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Beihai, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. 

More than 500 workers from medical institutions across the region, who have been in the fight against COVID-19 in Shanghai and Hubei province, were selected to participate in the medical treatment and quarantine work in the mobile cabin hospital under the support of the region's government, said the region's health committee during Monday's news conference.

As COVID-19 spreads rapidly across Beihai, the city announced its intention to build an air-inflated testing lab on Monday morning, which will have a daily capacity of about 80,000 tubes of samples for nucleic acid tests. This lab with five chambers is expected to be completed by Tuesday and the project will be used to further accelerate the city's nucleic acid testing quality and efficiency. 

On Monday, Guangxi reported 134 new locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases , all in Beihai, and 109 asymptomatic carriers, including 104 in Beihai.

As of Monday, the city has logged a total of 202 confirmed cases and 516 asymptomatic carriers since the latest outbreak on July 12.

Chang Shanghui contributed to the story.