They can only look at each other without saying too much because separating the couple is not only a staircase stretching the partition, but also a task. Mr Tuan treats Covid-19 patients in the internal medicine ward, while Thuy Linh works in the positive patient treatment area next to the pediatric disease ward of the centrally located No. 1 Field Hospital Chi Linh Medical Center. They were only a few feet apart, but they hadn’t seen each other in over half a month.
Without Covid-19, Linh and her husband are spending a warm Tet with their three-year-old daughter. They also celebrate Valentine’s Day. “Before, when we loved each other, this day was very romantic. Since I have a baby, February 14 will always be a day for the whole family,” nurse Linh said.
Linh and her husband met in the hallway of the medical examination department during the shift. Their prolonged moment of staring at each other was captured by a colleague. Photo: Character provided.Immediately on January 28, the Covid-19 broke out in Hai Duong, Mr. Tuan and all the staff had to stay at the center to self-isolate. Tuan and Linh have been given new assignments, someone in this department. “I also texted my husband to tell him that I could still go home after a two-week quarantine,” Linh explained.
Mr. Tuan used to participate in the fight against the epidemic, so he was not too surprised, and Linh was mobilized this time. The 27-year-old nurse spent her days working manually from morning to night, eating when it was overtime and enjoying sleep. On the third day, the nurse got used to it but still didn’t dare to be subjective. She even refrains from drinking water so that she does not have to go to the bathroom during her shift. Once at 12 p.m., Linh was ordered to follow the car to transfer patients with serious developments to the Central Tropical Disease Hospital. Back at 4 a.m., she had to take a shower before she could enter the ward. “First time in my life, I shower at 4am. Thinking about the recent strokes, I was also scared, but I was scared of infection, so I took a bath twice,” said the nurse.
Working side by side, but Linh and her husband couldn’t meet or help each other. A person only knows how to encourage the other through video calls a few minutes before bed. On the night of the 30th New Year, the call was longer than usual. Linh told her husband about her faculty to host New Year’s Eve. Tuan also showed that his wife in her faculty had a New Year’s song. During the encore, their daughter was sleeping soundly in her grandmother’s arms. mother.
The image of a police officer standing outside the bulkhead, quietly staring at his wife in the isolation area, both without saying a word… was shared on social media, bringing many to tears. The main character is Colonel Nguyen Van Hai, a police officer from Chi Linh City and his wife, Ms. Nguyen Thi Ngoc, a teacher.
From the outbreak, Mr. Hai was on duty and did not return home. But what worries him most is that the whole neighborhood, including his wife who attended Patient 1814’s wedding, will have to go into solitary confinement.
Two days after his wife “entered the camp”, Colonel Hai was able to take advantage of the time to patrol and bring his wife some personal belongings. The couple can only look at each other from a distance, unable to say a word, but they “understand” what the other means. “He was worried that I would be sad in there and always told me to wear a mask, work hard to eat and drink and try to complete the quarantine time to go home. He also knows that I’m worried about the house on New Year’s Eve, nobody has to run errands or worry, so he always encourages ‘everything will be in order’,” Ms Ngoc explained.
Married for 29 years, Ngoc and her husband have two grown daughters, but he never forgets to give his wife flowers, gifts and wishes on Valentine’s Day. On the afternoon of the 30th of Tet, he took the opportunity to bring his wife and everyone in the room to isolate a little food to have an end-of-year atmosphere. At 2 a.m. on the 1st, after checking and wishing for Tet, cheering on the soldiers throughout the area’s quarantine checkpoints, Mr. Hai made an appointment with his wife to go to the security post. to receive the red envelopes he sent.
“This year is a special Tet for my family, as well as for many other families because of the epidemic. But maybe falling into this situation makes us appreciate family values and the time we spend together even more” , Ngoc said.
Colonel Hai patrolled the isolation points in the area, taking advantage of his wife’s quarantine at the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Regiment, Chi Linh. The moment the couple sent ‘words of the wind’ to each other was captured by an acquaintance. Photo: Character provided.In recent days, many couples have had to separate to participate in the “war without gunpowder”. “We are on the same line. Do your best!” Major Nguyen Van Hoa, police chief of Hoang Tan district (Chi Linh) encouraged his wife, Huyen Trang, who is caring for a positive patient at the field hospital n °1.
As soon as the “Covid-19 bomb” exploded in Hai Duong, this couple accepted the task. Mr. Hoa must patrol and inspect posts in the area, while also being in charge of a post. Its department in charge has registered a number of positive cases, the entire residential area is blocked. The husband was so busy that when his wife was in the hospital, he had to ask an acquaintance to bring him a suitcase of clothes. For eighteen days, he has not been able to arrange to visit and supply his wife, even though they were only 5 kilometers apart. In return, every day he always takes the time to call her while eating or before sleeping.
In the early days, Ms. Trang participated in the fight against the epidemic, human and material resources were lacking, and two other children sent to their grandparents to mourn their parents, so the mood was still “troubled”. “I encourage my wife, you are a soldier in blue, I am a soldier in white, together in order to win the epidemic,” Hoa shared.
This variant of the virus is very strong, everyone in the outbreak knows that. They also know that the only way to meet soon is on a Covid-19 clean day. “Family and children are something everyone wants to protect, so even if it is difficult and the risk of infection is high, we will work together to reunite families as soon as possible,” Maj. Hoa said. .
Major Nguyen Van Hoa and his wife Nguyen Thi Huyen Trang are fighting the epidemic together. For the past eighteen days, they had only seen each other through video calls. Photo: Character provided.On the evening of the 2nd of the Lunar New Year, Colonel Hai stood in front of the gate of the isolation area of the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Regiment and saw the shadow of his wife among the neighbors. Crossing their eyes, they moved quickly towards each other, not staying in place like the previous days. Your daughter cooked a meal to congratulate her mother on the end of quarantine and to celebrate her parents’ 30th Valentine’s Day. The reunion dinner is late, the emotions are not reduced, on the contrary, it is more and more complete…
Phan Duong – Vnexpress
