A nurse who had not seen her son for close to a month kissed him through a sheet of glass upon their emotional reunitation.
Chinese medical worker Chen Ruixue had been working in the coronavirus isolation area in Xinyang No.4 People’s Hospital following the viral outbreak.
For 26 days the hard working woman had been away from home tackling the disease in central China’s Henan Province.
On February 24 she went back to her home to pick up some clothes and shared a touching moment with her young son.
Footage of the encounter shows Chen kissing the one-year-old through a glass window.
She is one of thousands of nurses who have been working flat out on the frontlines in China to fight the epidemic.
More than 14,000 nurses have travelled from across the country to Wuhan, where the virus originated, to work in the embattled hospitals.
In China, the government announced another consecutive fall in new cases, with 433 new confirmed coronavirus infections and 29 new deaths.
The vast majority of the new cases and deaths were in Hubei province.