Multiple places across China have noted that local makeshift hospitals constructed during the COVID-19 pandemic remain idle. These announcements come after plans to construct a makeshift hospital in Jiamusi, Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province have provoked a storm on social media.
Local authorities in places such as Southwest China’s Chongqing, Xingtai in North China’s Hebei Province and Zigong in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province noted that their makeshift hospitals are no longer being used as medical institutions and are now being used for other purposes or just lying idle.