Story By: John Feng, Sub-Editor:  Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report

AsiaWire / XMNN

These images show a Chinese city which has plastered the faces of heroic doctors and nurses on buildings and screens as health workers return from coronavirus-hit Wuhan.

The city of Fuzhou, capital of Fujian Province in East China, gave a hero’s welcome to two groups of medical workers as they landed at the city’s main airport yesterday (18th March).

Two Xiamen Air flights returned more than 200 doctors and nurses who had been assisting in some of Wuhan’s 16 temporary hospitals, the last of which was closed over the weekend as the city reported zero new cases for the first time since the outbreak began.

LED screens across Fuzhou – including buses, metro stations, public squares, shopping centres and office buildings – projected the images of nine different medical workers who had been sent to assist in the health crisis.

The faces of doctors, nurses, paramedics and ambulance drivers are now being presented on 7,621 screens as the province gradually brings home 12 batches comprising a total of 1,393 health workers sent to the heart of the deadly outbreak.

Among those who returned to Fuzhou yesterday were groups number five and nine.

Batch five’s 103 health workers were assembled from 56 local hospitals and had an average age of 32.

They arrived in Wuhan on 4th February and were sent to the city’s temporary hospitals to assist on 7th February.

Group nine, with its 107 staff, arrived on 16th February.

Neither batch reported any infections among its medical workers.

The first wave of health workers from Fujian was sent to Hubei Province on 27th January.

By 25th February 1,393 staff from all 12 groups had landed and were dispatched to 18 locked-down cities, including Wuhan, Yichang and Xiangyang.

All returning hospital staff will undergo mandatory 14-day quarantine, reports said.

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