At the Ruijin Hospital in the city's tree-lined, former FrenchConcessionarea, patients with high fevers and other flu-like symptoms are handed disposable thermometers and masks and ushered in through separate entrances.
The house sits in a back alley of an area called the FrenchConcession, which was conceded to the French government in 1842, after the Opium Wars, and held by the French until 1943.