May 12 marks the International Nurses Day and the 200th birth anniversary of famed British nurse Florence Nightingale. In the 19th century, Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, brought nursing from a disreputable vocation into a respectful profession with bravery and intelligence, which not only decreased the death rate of injured soldiers at the time, but also has benefited many till today. The year 2020 saw the COVID-19 pandemic contracting more than four million people and taking over 280,000 lives around the world. But nurses across the world have braved the danger, controlled their fears and shouldered the responsibility of carrying forward Nightingale's spirit in fighting the virus.