No fewer than 70 people have been repotedly trapped after a hotel being used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in the Chinese city of Quanzhou collapsed.
According to officials, about 35 people have been pulled from the rubble of the five-storey Xinjia Hotel.
Emergency workers were seen combing through the building’s wreckage.
It is not clear what caused the collapse or if anyone has died.
The incidence was said to have happened at about 19:30 local time (11:30 GMT).
Chinese state media says the hotel was being used as a quarantine facility monitoring people who had had close contact with coronavirus patients.
The hotel reportedly opened in 2018 and had 80 guest rooms.
As of Friday, Fujian province had 296 cases of coronavirus. Meanwhile 10,819 people have been placed under observation because they have been in close contact with someone infected.
