Bui Giai Van's husband, a former world boat racing champion in Hubei, died of nCoV, her son also infected.

Bui Giai Van, 49, and her husband, Liu Wei Dong, are also a rowing athlete, and Liu's mother went to a hospital in Hubei, China to check on February 1 after the symptoms of coughing, fever. Two days later, Mr. Liu died at home, before receiving test results showing that he was infected with nCoV.

While Bui was not completely shocked at the death of her husband, her son Luu Luc Vi, 20, also had a fever just two days after his father died and was diagnosed with nCoV by the hospital. Bui's mother-in-law was also confirmed to be infected a few days later. She was taken to the Fire God Mountain field hospital in Wuhan.

The current Bui is about to expire isolation, her son and mother-in-law's situation have positive changes. The former world champion yacht athlete said she sought motivation from difficult memories of her youth, when she was born in a poor peasant family in Huanggang, to Wuhan when she was 15 to learn how to row. .

Bui currently works for the Hubei Provincial Water Sports Center after his retirement. She won gold in the women's doubles at the 1993 World Cup Championships in the Czech Republic, and the women's doubles gold medal at the Asian Games held in Hiroshima, Japan in 1994, among others. other prizes.

Bui said on January 21, when everyone was busy preparing for the Lunar New Year, she quietly wore a mask when she heard that Wuhan would be blocked because of the virus.

Bui said that even though the city of nearly 11 million people was cordoned off to prevent the spread of the disease, she still heard people cheering "Fighting on" everywhere, showing that the people of Hubei were still trying to keep Positive thoughts in the fight against Covid-19.

The Covid-19 epidemic broke out in Wuhan in December 2019 and has been reported in 28 countries and territories, causing 75,662 people infected and 2,126 deaths. Hubei alone has 62,031 cases and 2,029 deaths as of today.

The National Health Commission of China has updated its statistics on new nCoV infections, according to which the currently reported cases will be divided into two categories, including "suspected cases" and "confirmed cases." Cases of nCoV infection are only counted when there are positive results for the virus based on a nucleic acid test.