A medical team member (L) says goodbye to her family before leaving for Hubei Province at Changsha South Railway Station in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province, Feb. 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Chen Sihan)
Discharged patients in Hubei Province climbs to 31,187 as health workers across China volunteer to aid the hardest-hit province in the battle against COVID-19.
BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhua) -- China has taken strong and unprecedented measures to safeguard Hubei Province, as well as its capital city Wuhan, epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, with focal attention paid to containing the spread at communities and treating the patients.
Over 330 medical teams with more than 40,000 health workers have been sent to Hubei Province to help combat the COVID-19.
The province saw 2,292 patients discharged from hospital after recovery on Saturday, bringing the total number of discharged patients in the province to 31,187.
Medical team members pose for group photos before leaving for Hubei Province in Nanning, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Feb. 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhou Hua)
Medical team member Zhang Zhijian (L) holds his son before leaving for Hubei Province at Chongqing North Railway Station in southwest China's Chongqing on Feb. 28, 2020. (Photo by Huang Wei/Xinhua)
Medical team member Huang Shuxia shows gifts prepared for patients before leaving for Hubei Province in Nanning, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Feb. 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhou Hua)
Medical team members wave goodbye as they take a bus to the airport in Nanning, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Feb. 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhou Hua)
Medical team members make a vow before leaving for Hubei Province in Nanning, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Feb. 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhou Hua)
A medical team member says goodbye to his family before leaving for Hubei Province at Changsha South Railway Station in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province, Feb. 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Chen Zhenhai)
