A medical worker takes care of patients in critical condition in an intensive care unit at China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing on Jan 25. (ZHU XINGXIN / CHINA DAILY)

Although China downgraded its management of COVID-19 from a Class A to a Class B disease on Jan 8 and the latest outbreak has peaked in Beijing, medical workers in the capital's hospitals remain at their posts, busy on the frontlines of epidemic prevention and control. Their focus now is on treating patients and preventing cases from becoming severe. During this year's Spring Festival, China Daily photographer Zhu Xingxin visited several hospitals in Beijing to present a snapshot of the hard work still being done.

Surgeons perform cesarean on a patient at China-Japan Friendship Hospital on Jan 25. (ZHU XINGXIN / CHINA DAILY)

Nurse Yu Cong adjusts a shadowless operating lamp in an operation room at China-Japan Friendship Hospital on Jan 25. (ZHU XINGXIN / CHINA DAILY)

Nurse Wu Jianying takes care of a child in an incubator in a ward for children in critical condition at China-Japan Friendship Hospital on Jan 25. (ZHU XINGXIN / CHINA DAILY)

Zheng Xudong (right), director of the Aviation General Hospital's Health Center, prepares to administer a CT scan of a recovering COVID-19 patient's lung on Jan 13. (ZHU XINGXIN / CHINA DAILY)

Shen Ning, deputy director of the Third Hospital of Peking University and an expert in respiratory disease, checks a CT scan of a patient's lung on Jan 19. (ZHU XINGXIN / CHINA DAILY)

Medical workers treat a patient in critical condition in a ward at the PLA Strategic Support Force's Characteristic Medical Center in Beijing on Jan 19. (ZHU XINGXIN / CHINA DAILY)

Zhao Chenlai, director of Peking University Shougang Hospital's Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, treats a recovering COVID-19 patient on Jan 18. (ZHU XINGXIN / CHINA DAILY)

Workers at the Beijing Emergency Medical Center transfer a patient to a hospital on Jan 25. (ZHU XINGXIN / CHINA DAILY)