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BEIJING, Nov.12 (Xinhua) – Nov. 12 marks World Pneumonia Day. Established in 2009 by a coalition of world health leaders, World Pneumonia Day aims to raise awareness about pneumonia and the importance of preventing and treating the disease.
This year, as we celebrate World Pneumonia Day amid the global COVID-19 pandemic that has dramatically increased deaths from pneumonia, let’s take the occasion to join together to spread awareness of global action to fight this respiratory infectious disease. .
Melanie Wendy, a 9-year-old Brazilian girl, holds up her drawing in support of China’s fight against novel coronavirus pneumonia in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on February 7, 2020. (Xinhua / Rahel Patrasso)
Valeria Castellano, 13, along with her younger brother Javier Castellano, 11, displays a painting with words of encouragement to China in San Salvador, El Salvador, on February 7, 2020. The painting expressed its support and encouragement to China . (Photo by Alexander Pena / Xinhua)
A teacher explains how human lungs work at the Dallas STEM Expo in Dallas, Texas, the United States, on Jan.18, 2020 (Photo by Dan Tian / Xinhua).
A doctor examines Mohammed Muheisen, a Palestinian baby from the Gaza Strip who suffers from lung disease and a broken leg, at the Red Crescent Hospital in the West Bank city of Hebron, on October 15, 2019 (Photo by Mamoun Wazwaz / Xinhua). )
A doctor reviews the CT scan image of a patient’s lungs at the Zhangzhou Municipal Hospital in Zhangzhou, southeast China’s Fujian province, Feb. 2, 2020. (Photo by Xiao Heyong / Xinhua)
Dr. Mohammed Abdul-Hussein examines lung images at the al-Shifaa Center in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 12, 2020. At a hospital specializing in COVID-19 in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, a CT scan donated by China, Mobile X-ray equipment and other medical supplies are saving lives in the front-line battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Already 400 patients have benefited from the important medical donation. (Xinhua)
Medical staff remove the ECMO machine used to support Hu’s lungs at the Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, on April 5, 2020. (Xinhua / Fei Maohua)
Patients recovering from novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) pose for photos with medical staff at Taikang Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, on February 19, 2020. A total of 13 NCP-infected patients recovered and were discharged from Taikang Tongji Hospital on Wednesday. (Xinhua / Shen Bohan)
A child from the Pudu wet market area takes the COVID-19 test in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 5, 2020 (Photo by Chong Voon Chung / Xinhua)
Medical staff hold a 14-month-old baby recovered from novel coronavirus pneumonia before his discharge from Wuhan Children’s Hospital in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, on Feb. 13, 2020. . (Wuhan Children’s Hospital / Handout via Xinhua) ■
