Women Medics in NW China's Xinjiang Contribute to COVID-19 Epidemic Containment

Zhen Yuexi, a 7-year-old girl, salutes Nuernisha Tayi (R, front), a woman medical worker conducting nucleic acid testing at a community in Tianshan District in Urumqi, capital city of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on August 13. [CNSPHOTO/Cai Zengle]

Since the resurgence of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the women among the 200,000 medical workers in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have gone all out to fight on the front line, sticking to their posts day and night for over a month. Their efforts contributed to the sharp decrease of confirmed cases, which is a phased achievement in the anti-epidemic fight.

There were no new confirmed COVID-19 cases reported in Xinjiang as of 24:00 on August 16, the first time since new clusters of COVID-19 infections emerged in the autonomous region in mid-July, the regional health commission said on August 17 in its daily report. 

Liu Qiong, a nucleic acid tester from the Xinjiang Urumqi Children's Hospital, drops off to sleep after working without any breaks on July 25. [CNSPHOTO/Cai Zengle]

Buzula Maimaiti, a staff member from the clinical laboratory center of a hospital in Urumqi, capital city of China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, answers the phone on July 28. [CNSPHOTO/Cai Zengle]

Payiziguli Ahatijiang (R), a member of the local nucleic acid testing team, collects samples for residents in Shuimogou District, Urumqi, capital city of China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on August 12. [CNSPHOTO/Cai Zengle]

Han Xue, who is in charge of the clinical laboratory center of the a hospital in Urumqi, capital city of China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on July 28 signals to her colleague outside the laboratory that there are not many samples left. [CNSPHOTO/Cai Zengle]

(Source: CNSPHOTO/Translated and edited by Women of China)