'Life is short': Wuhan's COVID-19 survivors share lessons one year on

Duan Ling, 36, receives medical treatment for In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) at a hospital as she and her husband Fang Yushun try to conceive a child, almost a year after the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei province, China December 16, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

WUHAN, China (Reuters) - In late 2019, Wuhan businesswoman Duan Ling and her surgeon husband Fang Yushun began to hear snippets in hospital chat groups about a disease emerging in the city's respiratory wards.

Duan didn't pay much attention at first.