Uni Tosses Out Belongings To Make Quarantine Rooms

This footage - seen nearly 18 million times online - shows staff at a Chinese university throwing students’ belongings out of dormitories while converting their rooms into emergency isolation wards.

As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases grows, at least 13 universities in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak in China’s central province of Hubei, have been ordered to convert student accommodation into quarantine quarters.

The requisition order came from the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention on 7th February, leaving university staff across the locked-down city scrambling to convert already occupied rooms into medical treatment or isolation units.