Shanghai Municipality, east China - Jan 21, 2020 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of nurse Wu Yan's handwritten application letter to join anti-pneumonia combat unit
2. Photo of Wu Yan with red cross flag

Shanghai Municipality, east China - Jan 24, 2020 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
3. Various of electronic screen showing surveillance footage, healthcare workers in hospital wards
4. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wu Yan, nurse, Respiratory Internal Medicine Department, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center:
"In 2003, I was among those protected. Now the chance to protect others gives me a strong sense of fulfillment."
5. Various of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine
6. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wu Yuanhao, head nurse, Respiratory Internal Medicine Department, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center (partially overlaid with shot 7):
"It takes a nurse five to seven years' experience in the intensive care unit to master the ECMO machine, and at least 10 full operations before he or she becomes an ECMO professional."
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7. Wu Yuanhao's hospital ID card
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8. Various of electronic screen showing surveillance footage, healthcare workers in hospital wards
9. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wu Yan, nurse, Respiratory Internal Medicine Department, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center:
"I hope everybody, the patients, doctors and nurses, can return to their families soon."
10. Hospital building
11. Direction board
12. Quarantine sign in front of hospital building
13. Footage of police body camera showing nurse Song approaching
UPSOUND (Chinese) Lu Xiaosheng, traffic police:
"What's the matter?"
UPSOUND (Chinese) Song, nurse, Respiratory Medicine Department, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital (no full name given):
"Could you take me to Changzheng Hospital? I'm heading for Wuhan to aid (the work against the viral pneumonia epidemic). I'm supposed to arrive at the hospital by 18:00, but now I don't think I'll make it. We were scheduled to leave by train at 19:00, but now we've been told that we are going earlier by air instead."
UPSOUND (Chinese) Lu Xiaosheng, traffic police:
"Say where you're going again?"
UPSOUND (Chinese) Song, nurse, Respiratory Medicine Department, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital (no full name given):
"Changzheng Hospital."
14. Various of surveillance footage showing police car rushing by
15. Bodycam footage of Lu behind steeling wheel
UPSOUND (Chinese) Lu Xiaosheng, traffic police:
"We'll arrive in 10 minutes."
UPSOUND (Chinese) Song, nurse, Respiratory Medicine Department, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital (no full name given):
[talking with colleague over phone] "I can make it, I can arrive at the hospital before 18:00."
16. Various of car pulling up by roadside; Song collecting luggage, leaving

Shanghai Municipality, east China - Jan 25, 2020 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
17. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Lu Xiaosheng, traffic police:
"Both of us are field workers, but she is the one going to the frontline. I admire her actions, so I didn't hesitate to drive her -- I believe it's my duty to get her to where she needs to be on time."
18. Traffic

Many Chinese healthcare workers have been hailed for demonstrating a selfless spirit and undaunted courage as they volunteer to join the battle against the ongoing viral pneumonia epidemic, with their brave actions winning support from all corners of society.

Among those acting on a sense of duty is Wu Yan, a nurse at the Respiratory Internal Medicine Department of Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center.

In a written application letter, Wu described how she feels strongly to about joining the fight against the epidemic as a Party member. She also has a special reason to do the dangerous and difficult job. Back in 2003, Wu was preparing for her college entrance examination when the SARS epidemic swept across China,. She said she received great care from all people around her and now believes it's time for her to give back to society.

"In 2003, I was among those protected. Now the chance to protect others gives me a strong sense of fulfillment," she said when speaking through a surveillance camera in the negative-pressure isolation ward she is now working in.

Wu Yan stood out as a perfect candidate to tend patients suffering from the severe lung illness because of her rare experience in using the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine, a special equipment that pumps and oxygenates a patient's blood outside their body, allowing the heart and lungs to rest.

"It takes a nurse five to seven years' experience in the intensive care unit to master the ECMO machine, and at least 10 full operations before he or she becomes an ECMO professional," said Wu Yuanhao, head nurse of the Respiratory Internal Medicine Department.

So far, more than 240 of Wu Yan's colleagues have joined the center's emergency team to combat the epidemic ailment.

"I hope everybody, the patients, doctors and nurses, can return to their families soon," she said.

While Wu took care of the patients in the quarantined wards, nurse Song from another hospital in Shanghai was racing against time to get to Wuhan, the center of the epidemic in central China's Hubei Province.

On Friday afternoon, Song, who works at the Respiratory Medicine Department of Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, was about to miss her connection to Wuhan because of a sudden change of travel plan.

Anxious and desperate, Song reached out to traffic policeman Lu Xiaosheng who happened to be on duty nearby.

"Could you take me to Changzheng Hospital? I'm heading for Wuhan to aid (the work against the viral pneumonia epidemic). I'm supposed to arrive at the hospital by 18:00, but now I don't think I'll make it. We were scheduled to leave by train at 19:00, but now we've been told that we are going earlier by air instead," said Song, as she explained her situation to Lu.

Learning that it was less than an hour before the scheduled departure time, Lu immediately decided to use his police vehicle to take Song to the rendezvous point at Changzheng Hospital as quickly as possible.

Thanks to the timely help from the police officer, Song was able make the flight to Wuhan that evening, where she will join the frontline fight against the virus.

"Both of us are field workers, but she is the one going to the frontline. I admire her actions, so I didn't hesitate to drive her -- I believe it's my duty to get her to where she needs to be on time," said Lu.

By the end of Saturday, China had seen 1,975 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus pneumonia and 56 deaths resulting from the disease, according to the National Health Commission.

In an effort the end the spreading pandemic, medical teams from hospitals and research institutions across China are rushing to aid the anti-epidemic work in central China's Hubei Province, while the government as well as private companies are sending medical goods such as surgical masks, protection suits to those in need.