It is the 11th day ofRenji Hospital’s west branch’slockdown after a worker was confirmed with coronavirus on January 21.

Medical staff say they are preparing for normal operations when lockdown ends.

The hospital was put under a 14-day quarantine and it shut down its outpatient service on January 21. Medical and hospital staff and patients and their families have been under closed-loop management since then.

Dr Zhang Qing, from the cardiology department, is in charge of some 200 staff being quarantined in a hotel, the site with the largest number of quarantined staff.

Zhang said the sudden lockdown had most patients at the department worried, as two thirds undergoing stent surgery on January 20 could have been discharged the next day.

Medical staff called on each patient and family to explain the issue and give them details about the 14-day quarantine.

As most patients and families didn’t bring sufficient supplies for two weeks, medical staff shared their supplies with them.

With the outpatient service shut, Zhang also gave online consultations and directed patients to use the Internet hospital to obtain medication.