Donning the protective gear required to enter the pressurized hospital room of a COVID-19 patient has become second nature for Nao Watarumi.
The 38-year-old nurse was performing a routine check on a patient, a man in his 50s who had been receiving artificial ventilation for close to a week in the coronavirus ward of Itabashi Hospital in Tokyo.
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