Health care workers have long faced a high risk of infection during major outbreaks. In Wuhan, that risk is exacerbated by a shortage of medical resources amid an influx of patients, as well as the government's belated warning of the high infection rate.
Ning Zhu, a nurse in Wuhan, the central Chinese city at the heart of a deadly coronavirus outbreak, is restless.
Instead of helping on the frontlines, she has been under self-quarantine at home for weeks, after a chest scan on January 26 revealed that she had a suspected case of the novel Coronavirus.Zhu was told to wait for a nucleic acid test that would provide the final verdict, but it never came."Right now, it's really a problem. Our hospital already has more than 100 people who are quarantined at home," she told CNN over the phone.
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