RACING AGAINST TIME
Feb 06, 2020
3 minutes
By Li Qing
Copyedited by Madhusudan Chaubey
On 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
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