When Edison Zhang, a 31-year-old engineer in Wuhan, was diagnosed with nCoV, he was relieved that he no longer had to be nervous.

"At first I was very worried and scared," Zhang said when he started to get sick, when his hometown of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, China saw hundreds of people die from corona virus.

The time to wait for a test result is the most stressful. But when she was confirmed to be infected with nCoV, Zhang was no longer worried. "I know from this point on, I have no choice but to treat," Zhang said.

Zhang is one of the few lucky people to get an nCoV test. In many parts of China, there is a serious shortage of test kits, while the results are not always accurate, leading to delays in diagnosis and treatment of patients. Many people waited in line at the hospital and ended up quarantined at home with relatives without knowing whether or not they were infected with nCoV.

The Covid-19 epidemic caused 2,009 deaths and more than 75,000 infections worldwide. Although the number of deaths increased daily, so did the number of people who defeated the virus and survived. More than 14,500 people have recovered.

Zhang is not clear when he was infected with nCoV. On January 22, he went from Wuhan to Chongqing with his wife and his parents-in-law. The next day, his father-in-law went to the hospital for a cough. "We urgently requested a throat and throat swab test because we felt that all his symptoms were like nCoV," Zhang said. But the county hospital refused to test.

A few days later, his wife had a fever. On January 30, a nasopharyngeal fluid test revealed that both she and her father were infected with nCoV. The next day, Zhang and his mother-in-law took the test. The whole family is infected. "If we had been tested earlier, there wouldn't have been a scene where all four people were infected," Zhang said.

The county hospital cannot treat them. "We were all transferred to a higher level hospital in the city. An ambulance took us from the county hospital to the city hospital. There was no stop," he said.

During treatment, Zhang repeatedly asked the doctor about the medicine to be used. He researched online to compare the treatment of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) in 2003, to make sure he did not use drugs with long-term side effects.

On February 9, after being discharged from the hospital, Zhang was taken away for 14 days in isolation at a government-designated hotel in Chongqing. All of Zhang's personal belongings, including clothes, books and other items, were subject to incineration. Currently, only Zhang and his father-in-law recover. His wife and mother-in-law are still in the hospital.

Zhang is young, healthy, plays basketball and has no underlying medical problems, so the chances of winning nCoV are high. "After receiving the results, I checked the number of deaths announced at that time. Most were elderly, many had underlying medical conditions. And I did not have any other illness," he said. to speak.

Also quarantined in a hotel in Wuhan, 21-year-old Tiger Ye is waiting for the final test result. He needs 4 negative tests to be considered cured and to go home.

Like Zhang, Ye has been fighting with nCoV since January. Ye may have been infected by the virus when studying Japanese at a foreign language school near the South China Seafood Market in Wuhan, believed to be the source of the outbreak.

"When I went to school on January 17, I felt a bit tired and sore throat. But I just thought I had a common cold so I took some medicine on my own," he said. A few days later, Ye began to lose appetite and by January 21, he was so tired that he could not swallow lunch.

Ye took a taxi to a large hospital for an examination but it was packed with people. "It's really chaotic. It's very crowded with nurses, doctors and patients in the fever department," he said. "I looked up the map to find another hospital".

Ye found a smaller hospital and went there but he was only given prescription. The situation is getting worse. On January 26, Ye coughed a lot and had a high fever. He felt chills, but his body was hot and hot. He also had stomachache, vomiting and diarrhea.

After going to the hospital again, Ye couldn't take a taxi home because Wuhan was blocked, so his father had to drive to pick him up. "My father told me I needed to be isolated for 14 days," Ye said.

In the end, Ye returned to the hospital, was diagnosed with nCoV infection and treated with anti-HIV drugs - experimental treatments were used in China and other countries. Ye began to recover quickly and on February 9, he was taken to a hotel for isolation. In fact, he has never been officially admitted to the hospital.

"At the most difficult time, I thought 'I'm going to die?'. But I have to face this disease and fight it," he said.

Not all who defeat nCoV find this fight difficult. At a news conference last week, an IT worker Li, 31, said she had only mild symptoms and felt safe upon admission.

"People should not be afraid of this disease. For those who are sick, you should trust the country, the hospital and the doctors," she said. "Go to the hospital to check it out as soon as possible. We can definitely beat the plague."

For patients like Zhang and Ye, uncertainty is one of the most worrying. Although they recovered, Zhang said that he had heard stories about "patients who were negative for re-infected nCoV".

"I saw the news and knew it was possible. I didn't know if it was happening to me and I was a bit worried about it, because there's still no clear information about the disease. You really can't. tell if someone has completely recovered or not, "he said.