The last conversation Salia Yang had with her mother was when she was lying in hospital in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the centre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak. Her mother, too weak and feverish to type, whispered halting voice messages into the family chat group. She was brainstorming how to get her parents — Salia’s grandparents — admitted to hospital. They were also infected with the virus but had been sent home to self-quarantine because the hospital had run out of beds. Four hours later, Ms Yang’s mother died. Two days later, her grandfather died too.
杨女士（Salia Yang，音译）与母亲最后一次谈话时，她母亲正躺在武汉一家医院里。武汉是这次致命新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情的中心。她母亲发着高烧，十分虚弱，无法打字，所以在家庭聊天群里气若游丝地发了一条断断续续的语音消息。杨女士的母亲在想办法把杨女士的外公和外婆送进医院。他们两人也感染上了新冠病毒，但因为医院没有床位，医院让他们回家自行隔离。四小时后，杨女士的母亲去世了。两天后，杨女士的外公也去世了。