China Lu Duoc Tien carried a bucket and bags in one hand, while the other hand held the blanket tightly around the girl suffering from cancer.

Support, 26-year-old daughter with leukemia, need a blanket around her to keep warm. But more importantly, she needed to leave Hubei, where she was born and raised.

Ping Ping began receiving chemotherapy in Wuhan City, the capital of Hubei Province in January. But when Covid-19 spread heavily, hospitals in the city fell into overload.

On January 28, the doctor told her the hospital had no room so she had to go somewhere else. The family went to 10 different hospitals in Hubei but nowhere is there any empty bed.

The place she lived in bordered with Jiangxi province, Supporting Ping and mother tried to come here to find the hospital. But then they were trapped on a bridge over the Yangtze. Wuhan has been cordoned off since January 23 and the rest of Hubei province soon followed suit.

Everyone can leave Hubei for medical reasons but must be certified by the authorities. Mother and child Support Binh Binh should not be allowed to cross the bridge. When informed by the checkpoint staff, Ms. Lu sobbed. "Please let my daughter go. Do not need to go but allow my daughter to pass," she cried.

"My daughter needs to go to Jiujiang City Hospital, Jiangxi Province. She needs treatment but they don't let us pass," Lu told two Reuters reporters, Martin Pollard and Thomas Peter. near.

As soon as she finished speaking, a loudspeaker sounded that all Hubei residents were not allowed to enter Jiangxi.

"All I want is to save my daughter," Lu said.

When the great-grandmother begged and the loudspeaker kept announcing, Supporting Binh sat down on the road and wrapped himself in blankets. About an hour later, an ambulance arrived on the other side of the checkpoint and they were allowed to go through.

Pollard and Peter wrote about this story and on world news sites, from Japan Times to Gulf News, appeared images of Ms. Lu crying at the checkpoint. But what happened after that, so far no one knows.

After seeing the story of Reuters, the BBC reached out to the Supporting Family and talked to her future husband, Tenth. He told the BBC what happened on that bridge.

"My mother-in-law cried and begged the police there for a long time. The police asked the specific reason and learned that my wife had leukemia to be treated. The officer called for orders from her superior." After understanding the situation, their superiors sent an ambulance to, "he said.

Support Binh was taken to the No. 3 People's Hospital of Cuu Long University Hospital. Finally, she was admitted to the hospital.

"She is now receiving very good treatment. She recovered quite quickly because of her young age," said Thap.

But they still have not worried yet.

The couple is not rich, while the cost of treating cancer in China is very high. Health insurance also cannot cover the full cost. Therefore, when receiving the diagnosis results, Thap posted a video on social networks entitled "My bride has leukemia, but we will not give up".

After that, they received tens of thousands of yuan in support. "A lot of people have tried to help us but it is still not enough," he said.

Thap used 100,000 yuan (about US $ 14,400) to save money to help his wife, but he said the remaining expenses were mainly due to the support of Binh's family.

"Her family currently has no income. Her parents are farmers and now she cannot go out to work because of the outbreak of Covid-19," he said.

He did not blame the government or hospitals for not receiving treatment for his wife. "The medical staff at the hospitals had a lot of my classmates and they didn't get a break. They had to work continuously throughout the day. They tried hard," he said.

He understood that Supporting Binh was still very fortunate to receive treatment in Jiangxi. "I have heard that one or two patients died because they could not find a place to treat," he said.

But he knew it would take more time for their lives to return to normal. "Even if she is well treated, it will take at least 2.3 years to fully recover. And even when she is healthy again, the disease is still likely to recur," he said.

Thirteen De met with Binh Binh at the university 8 years ago when she was in the same class majoring in human resource management. They had been in love for three years and were planning to get married in January. But the plan was postponed when Supporting Binh was diagnosed with leukemia and Covid-19 broke out across the country.

Covid-19 started in Wuhan City, Hubei Province in December 2019, then spread to other provinces in China, leaving more than 80,600 people infected and 3,070 deaths.

However, Thap asserted that his wedding would be postponed, not canceled. "We believe that both will overcome this difficulty and will get married when she gets better," he said.

Supporting mother Binh, the most honorable guest of that wedding, will surely cry but those are tears of happiness.