Wuhan city, the epicenter of the latest coronavirus outbreak in central China's Hubei Province, on Monday started building mobile cabin hospitals with an estimated 3,400 beds to treat novel coronavirus-infected patients with mild symptoms. (Photos: People's Daily/Zhang Wujun)

Workers started building temporary hospitals at midnight on Monday in three venues in the city: Hongshan Stadium, Wuhan International Conference and Exhibition Center and Wuhan Keting-Chinese Culture Expo Center.

Photos show beds prepared for patients at a mobile cabin hospital at Wuhan’s Hongshan Stadium, on February 4.

Hongshan Stadium is renovated into a cabin hospital with over 700 beds in Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei province, on February 4.

A worker prepares beds at a mobile cabin hospital at Wuhan’s Hongshan Stadium, on February 4.

More than 400 temporary beds were already in place in the morning of Tuesday at Hongshan Stadium.

Medical staff will be dispatched to the three hospitals to take care of patients who test positive for the virus — but show mild symptoms — as soon as they are completed.

A mobile cabin hospital is under construction at Wuhan’s Hongshan Stadium, on February 4.