Challenges and Responsibilities of Community Workers in The New Global
Coronavirus Outbreak
Abstract
The outbreak of the 2019-nCoV virus has coincided with Chinese Lunar New
Year, when tens of millions of people travel for the Spring Festival
holiday during the world's largest annual human migration. Travellers
give wings to novel coronavirus. Thanks to China's efforts that they
have effectively contained the cross-border spread of the
2019-nCoV.Medicine staff make great effort to prevent and control the
epidemic disease, and so do community service workers. AS of Sunday, 53
community workers had died in the line of duty in China's prevention and
control of the 2019-nCoV epidemic, according to the Ministry of Civil
Affairs . In the fight against 2019-nCoV, community workers have been
facing enormous pressure, including a high risk of infection and
inadequate protection from contamination, overwork, frustration,
patients with negative emotions, a lack of contact with their families,
and exhaustion. Thanks to community workers, the virus transmission
route is cut off and the emergence of new cases is effectively curbed.