Shanghai plans to build a 3,250-bed COVID-19 quarantine facility on a small island close to its city centre as China stands by its stringent zero-COVID controls.
The city awarded a 1.6 billion yuan contract to build the centre on Fuxing Island, located in the Huangpu River, to state-owned builder China Communications Construction Corp, according to a government document.
The document said the site, which will take in positive cases and their close contacts, would be 140,000 square metres large and have 3,009 rooms. The construction is expected to be completed in six months.
