Medical staff Li Dongjiang from southwest China's Guizhou Province shows his haircut at Wuhan Railway Station in central China's Hubei Province, March 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
Medical staff assisting Hubei had worked tirelessly on the front line against the epidemic despite danger and hardship when the country was in urgent need of their efforts. And now it's time for those heroes to come home.
WUHAN, March 18, 2020 (Xinhua) -- The first batch of medical assistance teams started leaving Hubei Province early on Tuesday as the epidemic outbreak in the hard-hit province has been subdued.
The 3,675 medical staffers belonging to 41 medical teams from across China have assisted 14 temporary hospitals and seven designated hospitals in Wuhan, the provincial capital and epicenter of the outbreak.
Over 42,000 medical workers from across the country were dispatched to aid Hubei in fighting the epidemic since the virus outbreak.
Medics from north China's Tianjin Municipality wave goodbye before their departure in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiong Qi)
A medical staff member from the First Affiliated Hospital of University of South China gestures on the train at a railway station in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Medical staff from southwest China's Guizhou Province walk to board a train at the Wuhan Railway Station in central China's Hubei Province, March 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
Medic Zhang Durong from southwest China's Guizhou Province waves goodbye at Wuhan Railway Station in central China's Hubei Province, March 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
Medics from southwest China's Guizhou Province wave goodbye to police saluting to them during their departure in a bus in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
Medics from northwest China's Shaanxi Province take photos of the city view with their mobile phones on a bus in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
Medics from north China's Tianjin Municipality gesture for a group photo with cabin staff aboard an airplane at the Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, on March 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiong Qi)
Medical staffers from southwest China's Guizhou Province and central China's Hunan Province wait for the trains at the Wuhan Railway Station in central China's Hubei Province, March 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Fei Maohua)
Gao Danping, a medic from northwest China's Shaanxi Province, sheds tears on a bus in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)■
