Outbreak Not Under Control in Wuhan Despite Drastic Containment Measures, Local Officials Say

A medical staff wearing protective gear looking on outside a makeshift hospital in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. - Chinese authorities on February 24 slightly relaxed their month-long quarantine measures in Wuhan, allowing some people to leave the epicentre of the country's virus epidemic under certain conditions, on Feb. 22, 2020. STR/AFP via Getty Images

Local officials in a district in coronavirus epicenter Wuhan City have revealed the outbreak is not under control, despite the drastic steps authorities have taken to limit its spread in the city.

Since Jan. 23, the central Chinese city of Wuhan has halted virtually all ground transportation, postponed school openings, sealed off residential compounds, and built more than a dozen makeshift hospitals out of gyms and schools—at a rate of about one every two days—to accommodate the influx of COVID-19 patients.