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A researcher works at a laboratory of the disease prevention and control center in Nanyang, central China's Henan Province, Feb. 4, 2020. (Photo by Hao Yuan/Xinhua)
BEIJING, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- China is waging a fierce fight against the coronavirus epidemic. Here are the latest developments for the past 24 hours:
-- Clinical trials on the antiviral drug Remdesivir started in Wuhan Thursday.
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-- After 10 days' work, the Leishenshan Hospital, another makeshift hospital with 1,600 beds in Wuhan, has started delivery.
Aerial photo taken on Feb. 5, 2020 shows the construction site of the Leishenshan (Thunder God Mountain) Hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. (Xinhua/Li He)
-- Wuhan is turning sports centers, exhibition halls and other venues into makeshift coronavirus hospitals which house over 10,000 beds. Some of them have already started to take in patients.
Patients infected with the novel coronavirus are seen at a makeshift hospital converted from an exhibition center in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 5, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiong Qi)
-- A total of 1,153 patients infected with the novel coronavirus had been discharged from hospital after recovery by the end of Wednesday. Wednesday saw 261 people walk out of the hospital after recovery.
Cured patients pose for a group photo with medical staff at the No.4 People's Hospital in Xining, northwest China's Qinghai Province, Feb. 5, 2020. Three pneumonia patients infected with the novel coronavirus were cured and discharged from the hospital on Wednesday. (Photo by Zhang Haidong/Xinhua)
-- A newborn in China's Wuhan is confirmed to have been infected with coronavirus just 30 hours after being born.
A staff member disinfects the ambulance transferring the first batch of patients infected with the novel coronavirus at Huoshenshan (Fire God Mountain) Hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 4, 2020. (Photo by Fan Xianhai/Xinhua)
-- World leaders, experts warn against discrimination caused by coronavirus epidemic. Chinese embassy slams "racist" reports by German magazine over coronavirus outbreak. ■
