Death toll rises to 13 in Quanzhou hotel collapse

Ye said that five professional rescue teams from nearby cities have arrived in the city to help with the rescue efforts.

In a video conference on the collapse on Sunday, Huang Ming, Party secretary of the Ministry of Emergency Management, urged all-out efforts to save the trapped as long as there is still a gleam of hope.

The collapse trapped all but nine of the 80 people in the hotel, a facility for medical observation after the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Licheng district government said 13 people injured in the accident remain hospitalized in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, and five of them are in serious condition.

The hospital has designated two zones to treat the injured to avoid cross infection and each of the patients is in a separate room, it said in a media release. "All patients are in stable condition," it said.

An investigation into the cause of the collapse continued on Monday.