Community workers vital for victory against virus

Peng Jing, 33, a community worker with more than a decade of experience, faced her toughest challenge to date when the novel coronavirus pneumonia hit Wuhan, Hubei province.

She has had less than five hours sleep a night as she has been busy organizing efforts to prevent and control the epidemic in the Shui'an Xingcheng community in the city's Wuchang district, where she heads the neighborhood committee.

The community has 4,383 households and more than 11,000 people live there. "We have 11 community workers, which means that every one of us is responsible for around 400 households," Peng said.

Peng and her colleagues made door-to-door temperature checks, organized group purchases in line with residents' needs, and helped deliver daily necessities and buy medicine for people in the community.