Hundreds of medical workers from Guizhou province traveled to Hubei province on Tuesday night to join the battle against the novel coronavirus epidemic.

The team, the fourth to be sent from Guizhou province, was made up of 337 medical workers who will work in Ezhou city in Hubei.

Yang Qin, a supervising nurse from the internal medicine department of Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University told the media that she had not rested after a night shift before she packed up and rushed to the airport to join the team.

Zhang Tao, an attending doctor from the organ transplantation department from the same hospital said he would be accurate and precise in every piece of his work in Hubei and make the utmost effort to help win the battle against the epidemic.