Couriers trawl through 40,000 packages looking for lifesaving medicine. Screenshot of people.cn

Twenty couriers spent more than three hours searching for lifesaving medicine for a leukemia patient at a delivery center in Cangzhou, North China's Hebei Province, on March 16, among 40,000 packages that were stranded due to COVID-19 epidemic.

According to Wang, the leukemia patient, the medicine that he bought online did not arrive on time because of the epidemic situation in Hebei Province. And the medicament interruption can accelerate illness development and even endanger his life. After learning of the situation, 20 couriers gathered together to help Wang find the medicine. After three hours, they finally found the right package among the piles of packages. 

A witness at the express station published the video online, which soon went viral on social media platforms. When netizens saw the video, they said the moment the couriers cheered when they found the medicine made them want to cry. "They are the common people with a warm heart! They have shown us the kindness in this difficult time of the epidemic," one netizen commented, receiving 2,783 likes on Weibo, China's Twitter-like social media platform.

As of Sunday, there were 51 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 356 new asymptomatic COVID-19 cases in Hebei Province.