A total of 48 people have been rescued out of the 67 initially trapped when the building first crumbled, state broadcaster CCTV said on Sunday.
Other footage published by local media, purportedly from security cameras across the street, showed the entire hotel collapsing in seconds.Rescuers work in the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Quanzhou, in China's eastern Fujian province on March 7, 2020. - Around 70 people were trapped after the Xinjia Hotel collapsed on March 7 evening, officials said.
Quanzhou has recorded 47 cases of the Covid-19 infection and the hotel, which opened two years ago, was repurposed to house people who had been in recent contact with confirmed patients, the People’s Daily state newspaper reported. China is no stranger to building collapses and deadly construction accidents that are typically blamed on the country’s rapid growth leading to corner-cutting by builders and the widespread flouting of safety rules.
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