The above image shows excavators at the construction site of Huoshenshan Hospital, built for this purpose, on 24 January 2020 in Wuhan, China – the initial epicentre of the outbreak. Huoshenshan ...

Built in just days as Covid-19 cases spiked in Wuhan in early 2020, the Huoshenshan Hospital was once celebrated as a symbol of the Chinese city’s fight against the virus that first emerged there.