Hospitals designated for novel coronavirus patients in Wuhan resume normal operation

Patients queue up at a counter at Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 16, 2020. More departments of the hospital are gradually resuming medical treatment for patients who suffer from other diseases since March 6. Hospitals designated for novel coronavirus patients in Wuhan will return to normal operation by the end of March, as the number of COVID-19 patients continues to drop. Those hospitals will be thoroughly disinfected after their missions of treating COVID-19 patients and will start taking patients of other diseases gradually. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)