Fight in Wuhan for a nurse who'd been on the anti-SARS battlefield

Li Li is head nurse at a medical center of Nanfang Hospital in Guangzhou. When the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) occurred 17 years ago in 2003, the then 27-year-old volunteered to join a military medical team dispatched to Xiaotangshan Hospital in Beijing. This time, she chose to participate in the virus fight again.

After arriving in Wuhan, she went to the ward of Hankou Hospital to check the situation, set up nursing schedules, and lead young nurses to conduct protective drills.

Due to the shortage of hospital staff, she often had to spare time for cleaning, delivering meals to patients, and disposing of medical waste with her colleagues. Hard as the task was, Li was proud of what she was doing. "I feel all this is worth it when the doctors and patients give us the thumbs up," she said.

A special gift from the Chinese medical assistance team 

July Moyo (left), local government and public works minister of Zimbabwe, receives medical supplies from Guo Shaochun, Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe, at the Robert Mugabe International Airport. [Photo by Tonderayi Mukeredz/For China Daily]

To help Zimbabwe defeat the epidemic, a team of Chinese experts set up by the National Health Commission and appointed by the Hunan provincial health commission came to work together with their Zimbabwean counterparts.

Twelve experts drove thousands of kilometers to donate medical supplies, share anti-epidemic experiences with local medical staff and provide epidemic prevention advice to medical institutions.

On their departure from Zimbabwe, the Chinese expert team made a special proposal for fighting COVID-19 in Zimbabwe based on China's experience in combating the virus and the actual conditions in Zimbabwe. The proposal was hailed as a precious, life-saving gift by the health minister of Zimbabwe.