BEIJING, May 12 (Xinhua) -- May 12 marks International Nurses Day. It is a special day observed every year to mark the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth and to celebrate the contributions that nurses make to society.
Nurses have been at the core of the COVID-19 response providing life-saving care and tireless commitment. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it more evident that nurses are irreplaceable.
Thanks to all nurses for caring for us on International Nurses Day and every day!
A medical worker takes a swab sample from a resident for nucleic acid test in Changning District of east China's Shanghai, April 1, 2022. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
A medical worker explains the precautions for COVID-19 vaccination for a child at a vaccination site in Jakarta, Indonesia, Jan. 16, 2022. (Xinhua/Veri Sanovri)
A medical worker collects a swab sample at a COVID-19 drive-through testing site in Los Angeles, California, the United States, Jan. 10, 2022. (Xinhua)
Nurses wearing protective masks take a group photo during an event named "nurses community pantry" inside a hospital in Manila, the Philippines on May 12, 2021.(Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)
A nurse administers the Sputnik-V vaccine against COVID-19 to a woman at a vaccination center in Gostiny Dvor, Moscow, Russia, Aug. 4, 2021. (Xinhua/Evgeny Sinitsyn)
Nurse Zhang Liuping feeds a newborn at the neonatology department of the People's Hospital of Rong'an in Rong'an County of Liuzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Jan. 1, 2021. (Photo by Tan Kexing/Xinhua)
A nurse wearing a protective mask lines up for an event named "nurses community pantry" inside a hospital in Manila, the Philippines on May 12, 2021. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)
Students and faculty members show their robotic nurse "Shams" in a lab of Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, on Aug. 11, 2021. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa) ■
