The novel coronavirus has been killing thousands of people and striking many more with disease in the past months. Here, we present to you some moments of medics and average citizens that have moved people greatly in the fight against this pathogen.

Renowned virologist Zhong Nanshan, 84, rests during a high-speed rail journey to Wuhan, the hard-hit city of novel coronavirus outbreak, Central China's Hubei province, on Jan 18, 2020. (SU YUEMING / FOR CHINA DAILY)

A medical worker from the Army Medical University based in Chongqing says goodbye to her family, Jan 24, 2020, before heading to Wuhan to fight the pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus there. The first batch of military medics left for Wuhan on the eve of Chinese Spring Festival. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY)

Zhong Hao (left) works at the construction site of Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province. The Huoshenshan Hospital, specializing in novel coronavirus treatment, completes construction within merely 10 days in Wuhan on Feb 2. His wife, Hu Jie, worked at the construction site for Leishenshan Hospital, another 'instant infirmary' in the city. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY)

Medical workers gesture to each other through the window in Zhangzhou Municipal Hospital in Zhangzhou, Fujian province, on Feb 2, 2020. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

Chen Ying, a nurse at the Forth Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, kissed her boyfriend between a window after working consecutive 11 days, on Feb 4, 2020. She finally married her fiancé Huang Qianrui, in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province, on March 20, 2020. (PHOTO / CCTV NEWS)

A picture on Feb 5, 2020, showing a young man reading Francis Fukuyama's The Origins of Political Order while resting at the Jianghan cabin hospital received widespread praise on social media platforms, with netizens nicknaming him "calm man" and "reading man". (YUAN ZHENG / FOR CHINADAILY.COM.CN)

Temporary "mothers" Zhang Xiaoyan (left) and Wang Simei feed the 2-month-old child Zhao Rui (pseudonym), a patient of novel coronavirus, at an isolation area in Yingjiang district of Anqing city, Anhui province, on Feb 20, 2020. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

Medical worker Cao Shan takes off her mask after a day's work on Feb 17, 2020. (CHEN ZHUO / CHINADAILY.COM.CN)

Medical worker Yi Qin teaches as patients follow during a traditional Chinese physical exercises session at a temporary hospital in Jiangxia district in Wuhan, Hubei province on Feb 25, 2020. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

Feng Feng, a service worker at a residential community in Wuhan, Hubei province, carries bags of medicine he bought for residents at the front of a drugstore, on Feb 27, 2020. As a service worker of Huiminyuan community, Feng took the responsibility of buying medicine necessary for those with chronic diseases in the community starting from February. The photo has gone viral online. (ZHU XINGXIN / CHINADAILY.COM.CN)

Yu Haijing, right, proposes to Zhou Lingyi, left, at the Leishenshan Hospital in Wuhan on Feb 28, 2020. (ZHU XINGXIN / CHINADAILY.COM.CN)

Ni Xiaohui overlooks the makeshift hospital he and 29 colleagues from Nantong, Jiangsu province, work at in Wuhan, Hubei province, on March 1, 2020. (WANG JING / CHINA DAILY)

An 87-year-old COVID-19 patient and his doctor, Liu Kai, watch the sunset on their way back from a CT scan on March 5, 2020, at Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University in Hubei province. (GAN JUNCHAO / FOR CHINA DAILY)

A screenshot of the official Weibo account of Argentina's national football team on March 8, 2020, shows that "After hearing your wish, we are going to send you a No 10 Messi jersey. Our staff will try to get in touch with you and we hope your son can have a brighter future after wearing his idol's shirt!" Wu Yu, a nurse from Xiangya Hospital in Central China's Hunan province who has been working in Wuhan, made a special wish on Women's Day-she hoped Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi would send her son a jersey to encourage the boy to become a member of the national youth training team. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY)

A ceremony is held to celebrate the closing of Wuchang makeshift hospital on March 10, 2020. (WANG JING / CHINADAILY.COM.CN)

Medical workers dance together to celebrate the closing of the Jianghan Makeshift Hospital in Central China's Wuhan on March 9, 2020. (CHEN LIANG / CHINADAILY.COM.CN)

A 103-year-old woman is discharged from the hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province on March 11, 2020, to mark the oldest cured novel coronavirus patient in the province that has been the epicenter of the outbreak in China. (PHOTO / HUBEI TV)

Medical workers are the front-line heroes of the country's battle against the novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei province. In the isolation wards, doctors and nurses not only treated, but also forged strong bonds with their patients. Photographer Li Ge asked medical workers from around the country who were in Wuhan to show images on their mobile phones of some of the patients they cared for, which he captured in this series. (LI GE / CHINADAILY.COM.CN)

A member of the national emergency medical rescue team from Tianjin gestures before leaving Wuhan, Hubei province, on March 17, 2020. Over 42,000 medical workers from around China are leaving Hubei after the epidemic was basically brought under control in the province. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

Medical experts to Italy prepare to board a plane in Fuzhou, Fujian province on March 25, 2020. A team of 14 medical experts from eastern China's Fujian province departed on a chartered flight to Italy to aid the European country's fight against the COVID-19 outbreak. Previously, China had sent two medical groups with a total of 22 people along with more than 20 tonnes of medical supplies to support Italy's epidemic fight. (PHOTO / XINHUA)