Moving Moments in the Fight against COVID-19

The city of Wuhan in Hubei province, China's core battlefield against the novel coronavirus, officially lifts its travel restrictions today.

Here, we present to you some moments of medics and average citizens that have moved people greatly in the fight against this pathogen.

Renowned virologist Zhong Nanshan, 84, rests during a high-speed rail journey to Wuhan, the hard-hit city of novel coronavirus outbreak, Central China's Hubei province, on Jan 18, 2020. [Su Yueming/For China Daily]

A medical worker from the Army Medical University based in Chongqing says goodbye to her family, Jan 24, 2020, before heading to Wuhan to fight the pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus there. The first batch of military medics left for Wuhan on the eve of Chinese Spring Festival. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Zhong Hao (left) works at the construction site of Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province. The Huoshenshan Hospital, specializing in novel coronavirus treatment, completes construction within merely 10 days in Wuhan on Feb 2. His wife, Hu Jie, worked at the construction site for Leishenshan Hospital, another 'instant infirmary' in the city. [Photo/CHINA DAILY]

A picture on Feb 5, 2020, showing a young man reading Francis Fukuyama's The Origins of Political Order while resting at the Jianghan cabin hospital received widespread praise on social media platforms, with netizens nicknaming him "calm man" and "reading man". [Photo by Yuan Zheng/for chinadaily.com.cn]

Medical worker Cao Shan takes off her mask after a day's work on Feb 17, 2020. [Photo by Chen Zhuo/chinadaily.com.cn]

Feng Feng, a service worker at a residential community in Wuhan, Hubei province, carries bags of medicine he bought for residents at the front of a drugstore, on Feb 27, 2020. As a service worker of Huiminyuan community, Feng took the responsibility of buying medicine necessary for those with chronic diseases in the community starting from February. The photo has gone viral online. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]

Yu Haijing, right, proposes to Zhou Lingyi, left, at the Leishenshan Hospital in Wuhan on Feb 28, 2020. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]

Ni Xiaohui overlooks the makeshift hospital he and 29 colleagues from Nantong, Jiangsu province, work at in Wuhan, Hubei province, on March 1, 2020. [Photo by WANG JING/CHINA DAILY]

An 87-year-old COVID-19 patient and his doctor, Liu Kai, watch the sunset on their way back from a CT scan on March 5, 2020, at Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University in Hubei province. [GAN JUNCHAO / FOR CHINA DAILY]

A ceremony is held to celebrate the closing of Wuchang makeshift hospital on March 10, 2020. [Photo by Wang Jing/chinadaily.com.cn]

Medical workers dance together to celebrate the closing of the Jianghan Makeshift Hospital in Central China's Wuhan on March 9, 2020. [Photo by Chen Liang/chinadaily.com.cn]

Medical workers are the front-line heroes of the country's battle against the novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei province. In the isolation wards, doctors and nurses not only treated, but also forged strong bonds with their patients. Photographer Li Ge asked medical workers from around the country who were in Wuhan to show images on their mobile phones of some of the patients they cared for, which he captured in this series. [Photo by Li Ge/chinadaily.com.cn]