Since Feb. 5, local authorities in Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic in China, turned 14 stadiums, school gyms, and convention centers into makeshift hospitals, to house patients with mild symptoms of coronavirus, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) branch organizations were quickly set up at these hospitals. Some patients, led by medical staff, were sworn into the CCP under the Party’s red flag. They then sang communist songs together.
