"Our time is quiet and the blooming flowers are waiting for us, because someone is carrying the burden for us." The Heartfelt words are from 17 foreign teachers, their family members, and 9 international students after 2-week lockdown of North Campus. On March 28, Pudong district was strictly locked down, and the logistics were difficult. The supply of fresh food and vegetables for 26 foreign teachers, students and their families was in short supply. Under the guidance of the university leaders, the team of university's temporary material allocation mobilized fresh ingredients, flour, eggs, steak, chicken ... from Chongming district overnight, and delivered them to the College of International Education in the early morning on the 29th. On behalf of the University, deputy secretary and the vice president, Tang Hongmei sent foreign teachers and international students fresh ingredients and daily necessities that had been transported and sterilized through the special channels of the school’s prevention and control office, security office, and logistics center to ensure their meals are seamlessly connected safely and securely.
It’s a great heap again after foreign teachers and international students have received heart-warming masks and disinfection supplies, milk, yogurt, cookies and snacks, vitamin C effervescent tablets, Lianhua Qingwen granules, muscle Loosening device at quasi-closed management of the campus on March 14. Together with all the teachers and students in the quasi-closed state of the whole university, they felt the deep care of the special period. The teachers and students of the College of International Education are the same as all other resident teachers, students and staff. Everyone's health, safety, and peaceful work and study are guaranteed by the meticulous prevention and control command from the university and the persistent work hard of teachers and staff day and night. In March 2022, a new round of "new crown" virus raged again. Together with more than 6,000 teachers and students in the whole university, they worked and studied on campus, participated in multiple rounds of nucleic acid testing, carried out online teaching, participated in school activities. They are a part of the big family of university and received special care.
The epidemic came unexpectedly, and the group of foreign teachers and international students from all over the world are fighting the epidemic with us in Shanghai University of Health and Medicine Science. Let’s wait for the flowers to bloom again.
