(LONDON INDEPENDENT) -- A hotel being used as a coronavirus quarantine centre in China has collapsed, leaving 70 people trapped.
The five-storey building in Fujian province was being used to house and observe people who had come into contact with Covid-19 patients when it collapsed at around 7:30pm local time.
Some 38 people have so far been rescued from the wreckage of the Xinjia Express Hotel in Quanzhou, local officials announced four hours later.
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