Deputy Chief Physician Xie Jianfeng and Chief Nurse Liu Jiabin of the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Zhongda Hospital of Southeast University were sent to Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province to aid the anti-epidemic fight there.
They will join the export group Professor Qiu Haibo and Professor Yang Yi, both Critical Care Medicine Experts from Zhongda Hospital, to treat and rescue the confirmed cases. In the meantime, 32 doctors and nurses from Jiangsu have rushed to Hebei Province to aid the fight against the virus. The medical workers are from 9 hospitals in Jiangsu. 10 of them joined in the COVID-19 fight in Wuhan early last year. Northeast China's Heilongjiang province reported 27 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 43 asymptomatic infections on Jan 18. North China's Hebei province reported 35 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases and two locally transmitted asymptomatic cases on Jan 18. As of 10 am on Jan 19, Hebei had reported 822 locally transmitted confirmed cases, including 771 cases in Shijiazhuang, during the latest resurgence of COVID-19 since Jan 2.
