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dedication to duty
W
ith the world’s eye on the havoc caused by the novel coronavirus, there can never be too
much space given to the ordinary men and women who have shown extraordinary cour-
age and dedication to duty to keep life going for others. They range from people working in
supermarkets and drugstores to security guards and transport workers who always turn up for work
during the worst weather and crisis.
Doctors and other medical workers, who are at the forefront of the ongoing battle against the
virus, have once again shown the exemplary mettle that has made China re-emerge from being one
of the poorest nations in the world. They willingly gave up their Spring Festival holiday to rush back
to work, many of them going to Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak.
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them and showing solidarity with the people of Wuhan have gone viral on both traditional and new
media platforms in China. Q
(Photos by Xinhua News Agency)
4- A patient in Wuhan gives a thumbs-up
to the doctors and nurses treating him
on January 27 - A patient infected with the novel
coronavirus expresses gratitude to
medical staff at a makeshift hospital
converted from an exhibition center
in Wuhan on February 5 - Medical staff communicate using
gestures and simple language in the
isolation ward of the Fuzhou Pulmonary
Hospital after their walkie-talkie battery
died in Fujian Province, southeast China,
on January 31
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Hospital of the Xinjiang Medical
University comforts his wife as he says
goodbye to leave for Wuhan
on January 28
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Wuhan, Stay Strong