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COVER STORY
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n December 29, 2019, seven cases of
pneumonia of unknown cause were
referred to the Jinyintan Hospital in
Wuhan, Hubei Province in central China.
They were all related to the Huanan Seafood
Wholesale Market.
As similar cases began to be reported
in Wuhan, 57-year-old Zhang Dingyu,President of the hospital, was on high
alert. His decades of clinical experience
told him it was not an ordinary infectious
disease.
He ordered to move the patients into
an isolation ward. Examining their symp-
toms and analyzing the results, he realized
the situation was worse than he had
imagined.
The next morning, he urgently deployed
more medical personnel in two new sepa-
rated areas, admitting over 80 patients.
On the same day, the National Health
Commission noticed the spread of viral
pneumonia in Wuhan. It was announced on
January 8 that the cause of the pneumonia
was the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
Including Zhang, over 600 medical
workers at the hospital have overworked
for more than one month. “We need to
compete against time in order to get more
patients back from the epidemic,” he told
state broadcaster China Central Television
(CCTV).
Few people know it is also a personal
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Zhang Dingyu, President of the Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan in central China at work on January 27
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