Chris Buckley 储百亮Ovjeren akaunt

Chen Yanming, who said her father was suspected of contracting the coronavirus, told me she was calm but melancholy and anxious as Lunar New Year came. “Today should be Chinese people’s happiest day, but this sickness has destroyed that feeling.”pic.twitter.com/J0Jt4jEKyP

I said the Hankou Hospital in Wuhan seemed less crowded on Friday. But the Red Cross Hospital is packed. People anxiously lined up. Medical workers rushing in and out to receive people from ambulances.pic.twitter.com/uhwO6pT7aC

One feature of Chinese medicine is a heavy reliance on the drip for patients. Outside the Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan this elderly man was setting up his drip outside on the street. It was too crowded inside the hospital, he explained.pic.twitter.com/P6cMbrq07v

Chased away from the Wuhan No. 5 Hospital, home to a statue of Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who assisted Communist forces during the war against Japan. I tried to explain that such a hospital should welcome foreigners.pic.twitter.com/hM13EsaKpw

Some Wuhan residents have told me that food is hard to come or expensive by because markets and shops are closed. At least the Walmart I dropped into has fresh fruit and vegetables on the shelves. What are other people with friends or family in Wuhan hearing?pic.twitter.com/Y3mvAQ7TKN

Protective gowns reach the No. 4 Hospital in Wuhan. But the medical workers told me they are still seriously short of the gowns and masks that will keep them safe. One told me that they have been buying their own masks. and using them too long to be safe.pic.twitter.com/uTiyQzfyB9