SHANGHAI/BEIJING — Four people have died in the collapse of a hotel in the Chinese city of Quanzhou, the Ministry of Emergency Management said on Sunday (March 8), after state media said that the place was being used to quarantine individuals under observation for the coronavirus.

The hotel began to collapse on Saturday evening. As of 10.30am Beijing time on Sunday, the authorities had retrieved 42 individuals from the site of the collapse, the ministry said.