‘Now we know this foe’: mainland Chinese doctors, nurses dived right into helping Hong Kong tackle fifth wave of Covid-19 infections | South China Morning Post


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Respiratory medicine specialist Xiao Guanhua thought his 36th birthday two years ago was unforgettable, as he found himself battling a mysterious, fast-spreading disease in Wuhan, in China’s Hubei province. He turned 38 on March 11 in Hong Kong, while he was with a team of mainland Chinese doctors and nurses helping with the city’s raging fifth wave of Covid-19 infections. “It’s very memorable,” said the doctor from Guangzhou, capital of neighbouring Guangdong province. “In Wuhan, we were fighting a largely unknown foe. Two years on, we’ve got to know the virus rather well, but the fifth wave hit Hong Kong...