A team of nine Chinese epidemiologists, intensive care specialists and a plasma therapy expert arrived in Rome on Mar 12 local time,, along with tons of medical supplies.
A charter flight carrying a 9-member Chinese aid team, along with tonnes of medical supplies, arrived at Rome's Fiumicino Airport on Thursday night, in part of China's efforts to help Italy contain the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio expressed his gratitude to the Chinese government for sending a team of professional medical experts to Italy, and stressed that the medical team sent by China are the first people to deal with the COVID-19 and are rich in experience when he interviewed by Italian national television.
Here is a question asked by a journalist on Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang's regular press conference on March 11, 2020.
A team of Chinese experts and a batch of medical supplies organized by the Red Cross Society of China arrived on March 7 in Iraq's capital Baghdad from South China’s Guangzhou province as part of China's assistance in combating the outbreak of the COVID-19 in the country.
As a response to the WHO's appeal, the donation is practical support for the organization to continue playing a better coordinating role in the global fight against the epidemic, especially in helping medium and small-sized countries with weak public health systems cement their defense against the outbreak.
On Mar 6, Xing Haiming, Chinese ambassador to the Republic of Korea, met with a senior official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea (ROK), to express China’s decision to support the ROK government and tackle the COVID-19 outbreak by providing medical supplies.