Hubei gives fond farewell to 7,000 medics as epidemic retreats

Medical officers who volunteered in Wuhan to help combat the coronavirus outbreak getting ready to go home as artistes from the provincial federation of literary and art circles put on performances at the airport to pay their respects to the departing medics in Hubei province on Tuesday (March 31). - AFP

WUHAN: A total of 7,022 medical officers belonging to 66 medical assistance teams left Hubei by air Tuesday (March 31) as the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak in the hard-hit province has been subdued.

It was the largest batch of departing medics since medical assistance teams began to withdraw on March 17.