Salute to frontline superwomen fighting the virus
This year's International Women's Day comes at a crucial stage in China's fight against the COVID-19 virus. Female medical staff have played a critical role in this battle.
Reporting about how China fights the virus is the duty of front-line reporters despite the dangers, said Liao Jun, who has been covering the epidemic for more than two months.
Liao has visited hospitals, isolation facilities and local communities around the city. "For the first time in my career, I felt my line of work could cost me my life," said Liao, a mother of two children. But she said it was her duty, and she was also deeply touched by the people she talked to.
In one young couple she interviewed, the wife is a doctor at a hospital designated for novel coronavirus patients. The wife has been staying at a hotel since Jan 23 to be isolated from her family. Every day, the husband follows her in the car in the dark and lights up the road in front of her with the headlights because she refuses to get into the car, fearing that she might spread the virus to him.
Liao said she will always remember stories like this, which show the strength of the Wuhan people.
