Medical assistance teams leave hard-hit Hubei as epidemic wanes

Source: Xinhua| 2020-03-17 16:20:43|Editor: huaxia

CHINA-WUHAN-COVID-19-MEDICS-DEPARTURE (CN)

A medical staffer from southwest China's Guizhou Province waves goodbye to police seeing them off while heading for the railway station in a bus in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 17, 2020. The first batch of medical assistance teams started leaving Hubei Province early on Tuesday as the epidemic outbreak in the hard-hit province has been subdued. The 3,675 medical staffers belonging to 41 medical teams from across China have assisted 14 temporary hospitals and seven designated hospitals in Wuhan, the provincial capital and epicenter of the outbreak. (Xinhua/Fei Maohua)

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