We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Li Wenliang.

Dr. Li Wenliang, one of the eight “whistle-blowers”, who tried       1     (warn) fellow medics of     2     novel coronavirus outbreak,     3    (die) early on Friday. Wuhan Central Hospital confirmed in a statement released on     4     (it) official Weibo account. “Our hospital’s ophthalmologist Li Wenliang was     5     (unfortunate) infected with coronavirus during his work in the fight     6     the coronavirus epidemic,” the statement read,     7     (add) “He died at 2:58 a.m. on February 7 after attempts to revive     8     (be) unsuccessful”. Dr. Li,     9     is a hero, will live in our hearts forever.

May God bless (保佑) all the courageous     10    (doctor) and nurses fighting on the front line.

4 . After persuading most of his patients, his wife and son to go back to France following the lockdown of Wuhan, Philippe Klein, a French doctor, decided to stay in the epicenter during the COVID-19 outbreak.

“I am a doctor, so I have to do my job and do my _________,” said Klein, a general practitioner at Wuhan Union Hospital in Hubei province.

Before authorities in Wuhan _________ the city, suspending(v.暂停) all outbound(a.驶往国外的；开往外地的) flights and trains in late January to _________ the highly infectious disease, Klein had _________ about 500 foreigners living in Wuhan, most of them French.

Following the outbreak, he closed his _________ at the hospital to reduce the chances of infection for his patients. Instead, he began to give _________ and treatment at patients’ homes.

But while he continued to see his patients, Klein found some had fever and he might be _________ with the virus, so he decided to send his wife and son back to France.

“When I came back home after seeing patients, I didn’t feel very comfortable. I really did not want to put my family _________, so I asked my wife to leave Wuhan on the second plane organized by the French government,” he said. “My son was crying when we _________, but it was better for them to leave Wuhan and let me do my job. Also they were very proud because I was doing my duty here.”

In addition to his sense of duty as a doctor, he said he also chose to stay because of his deep ____________ for the people and the city, where he has lived for six years.

“People in Wuhan are very friendly to French, and here I feel like a star sometimes,” he said.

____________ the lockdown of a vast city with 11 million people, which is rare in human history, has a big ____________ on Klein. He said he is touched by the ____________ Wuhan residents have made to contain the outbreak.

“The last month was the craziest month in my ____________ life,” he said. “and I would like to say to the people of Wuhan and to the Chinese people that they are going to overcome this epidemic. And their sacrifice, their courage, their unity, will ____________. It will be an example to the world to make such a sacrifice (n.牺牲) to protect the rest of the world.”

President Xi Jinping signed a presidential order on Tuesday     1     (award) four people national medals and honorary titles for     2     (they) outstanding contributions to fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

Zhong Nanshan, 84,     3     excellent disease expert, was awarded the Medal of the Republic, the highest national honor, for his outstanding work     4     fighting COVID-19 in China.

Three others were also awarded the “People's Hero" national honorary title for helping fight against the novel corona-virus (新冠病毒).They are Zhang Boli, a     5     (tradition) Chinese medicine expert; Zhang Dingyu, head of Wuhan^’s Jinyintan Hospital; and Chen Wei, a medical scientist     6     made major achievements in COVID-19-related basic research.

Zhong also has long been devoted to the research, prevention and     7     (treat) of major infectious and chronic respiratory diseases (慢性呼吸病)，and has a long record of achievements. He was a major figure in the fight against the severe acute respiratory syndrome (综合症状)outbreak in 2003 in China.     8     (follow) the COVID-19 outbreak, the Chinese government encouraged the country to contain the disease in Wuhan, Hubei province, after the city was locked down in late January. More than 42,000 medical workers from across the country     9     (send) to Hubei to fight the disease. The pandemic has been     10     (effective) placed under control on the Chinese mainland since early March.

6 . COVID herd immunity (群体免疫) will not happen in 2021

World Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said Monday that herd immunity to coronavirus would not be achieved in 2021, despite the growing availability of vaccines (疫苗产量).

Factors that delay herd immunity include limited access to vaccines in developing countries, skepticism (怀疑) over vaccination, and the potential for virus mutations (变异), according to health experts.

A growing number of countries around the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Germany and other European Union countries, are in the first stages of mass-vaccination campaigns.

Herd immunity occurs when enough people in a population have immunity to an infection (感染) so that it prevents the disease from spreading.

“We are not going to achieve any levels of population immunity or herd immunity in 2021,” Swaminathan said, while emphasizing that measures like physical distancing, hand washing and mask wearing continue to be necessary in controlling COVID’s spread for the rest of the year.

However, Swaminathan praised the “incredible progress” made by vaccine researchers to develop several safe and effective vaccines at unprecedented (空前的) speed. Countries are currently administering vaccines developed by BioNTech-Pfizer, Oxford University AstraZeneca and Moderna.

“The vaccines are going to come,” she said. “They are going to go to all countries, but meanwhile we mustn’t forget that there are measures that work,” she added, referring to hygiene (卫生) and social distancing.

“We won’t get back to normal quickly,” Dale Fisher, chairman of the WHO’s Outbreak Alert and Response Network, told a conference hosted by Reuters news agency. “We know we need to get to herd immunity and we need that in a majority of countries, but we are not going to see that in 2021,” Fisher said. “There might be some countries that might achieve it but even then that will not create normal especially in terms of border controls,” he added.

9 . Many workers have had no choice but to adapt to working from home in recent months since offices shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic (新冠疫情). And the noisy situation and endless housework may result in a terrible emotion. A new option is waiting for you. That is WFH: work from a hotel.

Hotel Figuero

A special program titled Work Perks aims to reposition some of 94-year-old Hotel Figuero’s 268 rooms as day-use offices.

According to Managing Director Connie Wang, the set-up launched in June and is a great opportunity to get out of their houses with high-speed Wi-Fi, unlimited printing privileges and free parking. The 350-square-foot rooms sell for $ 139 per day, with an option to extend to an overnight stay for an additional $ 30.

The Wythe

A boutique hotel in Brooklyn. The hotel recently announced a partnership with co-working office space company Industrious through which it is recycling 13 second-story guest rooms to serve as offices for up to four people.

The Sawyer

The Sawyer, in Sacramento, California, is offering pool cabanas (更衣室) for use as outdoor offices, complete with fast Wi-Fi, free parking and catered lunch for $ 150 per day.

Each of the rooms has a small outdoor platform, and dogs are welcome. Pricing starts at $ 200 and goes up to $ 275, depending on how many people use the space.

Hotels By Day

Yannis Moati founded Hotels By Day back in 2015. That company has grown to include more than 1,500 hotels, and has seen a significant increase in the number of inquiries for day-use bookings lately.

Moati said the current situation will force hotels to upgrade themselves to stay alive, and he predicted that offering rooms for day-use only is one of the directions they will go.