Chinese celebrate New Year despite sporadic COVID-19 outbreaks
As citizens enjoy their family reunions and holiday celebrations, medical workers in different places are still on duty to fight COVID-19.
Fu Yanyang, a 29-year-old nurse in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning province, got up early. The province has recently reported multiple locally transmitted COVID-19 cases.
"In my hospital, we test around 1,800 people a day," he said, referring to the ongoing large-scale nucleic acid testing in Shenyang.
Yin Ling, a researcher with the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, waved goodbye to the bittersweet year 2020 laden with both risk and reward.
With the help of big data, the tech-savvy researcher studies the spread characteristics of the virus among the population. Her model, built on collected data, simulates the temporal and spatial spread of the coronavirus and provides a reference for disease prevention and control.
"As the country places independent innovation at a more prominent position, we will continue to work hard in research to expand the role of big data in various sectors," she said.
