Having lived in the hutong for decades, Hu felt obliged to safeguard his community when the Covid-19 epidemic hit. Beijing on June 16 upgraded its emergency response to Covid-19 from Level III to Level II following the resurgence of domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases. Currently, all the 249 newly confirmed Covid-19 patients are being treated at Beijing Ditan Hospital, where 100 medics from 19 other Beijing hospitals joined the treatment. A respiratory doctor from Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Jiang had finished his 65-day mission in Wuhan helping battle Covid-19. Lazarus Banda from Malawi, a PhD candidate at Beijing Institute of Technology, also has great confidence in how the Beijing government works.

Source: Standard Digital July 10, 2020 07:31 UTC