Rescuers work at the site of a hotel building in China’s Fujian province which was used for medical observation of people who had contact with coronavirus patients collapsed in southeastern China on Saturday.
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The accident happened around 7.30 p.m. local time
About 70 people were trapped on Saturday after a hotel being used for coronavirus quarantine collapsed in the Chinese city of Quanzhou in Fujian Province, the city’s authority said on its website.
Video posted online showed orange-clad rescue workers clambering over mounds of rubble. It was not clear how tall the building had been before it collapsed, but there appeared to be commercial properties at street level.
The building collapsed at ab