People’s Heroes
Sep 17, 2020
3 minutes
By Lu Yan
Copyedited by Rebeca Toledo
Recalling the national fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic, Zhong Nanshan, China’s top respiratory disease specialist, couldn’t help getting choked up.
The 84-year-old recounted that one day one of his students working at Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, then the hardest-hit area in the country, sent him a message saying that residents in his neighborhood were singing the national anthem to cheer each other up amid the raging epidemic.
“This is the Chinese nation. These are the Chinese people. Nothing can defeat us,” Zhong told state broadcaster China
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