Coronavirus: Chinese nurses shaving heads

Some Chinese nurses are shaving their heads to reduce the risk of cross contamination while fighting the coronavirus at hospitals in Wuhan.

Shaved heads are just one example of sacrifices medical staff are making as they head to the front line of the epidemic.

As of Tuesday morning, the novel coronavirus, formally known as 2019-nCoV, had killed more than 1,000 people and infected nearly 43,000.

A video posted by the state-run People's Daily, China's largest newspaper, shows nurses from the Shaanxi province shaving their heads before shipping out to Wuhan. _Agencies

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