Three cities under lockdown as coronavirus outbreak kills dozens in China

Videos and witness accounts are being shared on Chinese social media of packed and overwhelmed hospitals in Wuhan, the 11 million-strong city at the center of the coronavirus outbreak.

CNN has not been able to independently verify the videos. However, CNN producers have analyzed images in the videos and the dialects of the people speaking and believe them to be genuine.

The content from these videos matches Chinese state-owned media’s reporting that medical facilities in Wuhan have been overwhelmed with patients.

In one widely shared video, a hospital corridor can be seen packed with patients.

A female medical practitioner shouts, "Everyone stop speaking! Listen to me! Be quiet!" She instructs medical staff to "get all the people coming for the test results to line up outside," before shouting at patients, "Everyone coming to check their test results, follow this young man to the entrance and line up! Go out first! Line up! Don't be nervous!"

All voices in this video are speaking in either Wuhan dialect or Mandarin with a Wuhan accent.

Another video shared on social media appears to show white tents set up outside a hospital in Wuhan. Signage on the tents reads in Chinese characters "China Health." One other sign post in between the tents reads in Chinese characters "Patients' Path."

Chinese state media previously reported that construction has begun on a new 1,000-bed hospital in Wuhan to help alleviate the rush of patients. The new hospital is expected to be ready by February 3.

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