WUHAN: Chinese netizens hailed the restoration of the Wuhan Sports Center’s (WSC) stadium from a former makeshift COVID-19 hospital during the national fight against the epidemic.
The sports center stadium hosted 7,500 spectators to the basketball game on Sunday as part of the historic comeback. Contrasting images went viral on Monday, depicting a latticed court filled with makeshift hospital beds in the fight against the epidemic to a stadium featuring a basketball game Sunday full of cheers and excitement. Some of the doctors who fought the epidemic in Wuhan joined a charity basketball game against some of China’s most famous basketball stars. Spectators took photos with the doctors, whom they consider heroes of Wuhan residents and every Chinese.
They pulled out their phones to witness the moment, as most of them didn’t expect to witness the center’s return to vitality so soon, as many other countries continue to cope with the coronavirus. For many Wuhan spectators, their visit brought them back to the sour memory several months ago of the smell of disinfectant and the desperate patients on the row of beds. Since its opening on February 12, the makeshift hospital admitted 1,056 patients until it was closed on March 8. The hospital reported zero deaths, no medics getting infected, and no cured patient getting reinfected. Seeing the sharp contrast between the past and the present, many people shed tears. What’s behind the emotion was their highest respect to medical staff struggling day and night, as well as patients fighting death.
– The Daily Mail-Global Times News exchange item
