A hospital in Hubei closed officials say environmental samples nucleic acid testing abnormal

Officials in Xiangyang City, Hubei Province, today (Feb. 2) reported that abnormalities were found in routine environmental sample nucleic acid testing at the Nanzhang County People’s Hospital. Local residents told Voice of Hope that the hospital has been closed. Another local businessman told the station that a patient brought the virus to the hospital.

The government website of Nanzhang County, Xiangyang City, Hubei Province, said today (Feb. 2) that on Feb. 1, the Nanzhang County CDC found abnormalities in the nucleic acid testing of routine environmental samples from the Nanzhang County People’s Hospital, and the local authorities immediately launched an emergency plan, saying that “hospital control measures are already in place.

Our reporter called the Nanzhang County People’s Hospital today, the staff said, “ordinary patients are not received, serious patients received, only seriously ill patients.”

Hospital residents near Zhou Qing (a pseudonym) told our reporter that the hospital has been closed, not allowed in and out, “is just closed this morning, early this morning the police stood at the entrance to the hospital, not allowed to enter the hospital can not enter can not get out, now there are more than 2,000 people inside it, doctors what ah all, they doctors and nurses can not get out. “

A nearby merchant also confirmed to this station that the hospital has been closed, “only the hospital closed, a patient inside the hospital, elsewhere not closed, the hospital can not go in and out.”

The merchant revealed that a patient brought the virus into the hospital, “a patient, and then bring that virus may be brought to the hospital, and then this is not, the specifics are not very clear.”

At present, whether there have been local cases, this station has not been able to confirm.