At 5 p.m. on March 17, the first group of medical teams that were in Hubei to help the province fight COVID-19 from Sichuan Province landed at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport.

 

Sichuan medical team at the airport.(Photo/Xinhua)

 

With the situation of epidemic prevention and control gradually turning better, according to the unified arrangement of the National Health Commission of China, medical teams from all over the country that have completed the task will leave Hubei in batches. After the outbreak of COVID-19, Sichuan sent 1,463 medical and nursing personnel to support Hubei. The medical support team that returned from Sichuan on March 17 is the sixth team of 303 experts sent to help Hubei.

 

Sichuan medical arrive in Chengdu.( Photo/SOL)

 

After the plane landed in Shuangliu Airport, these members were sent directly to the isolation wards and through special channels and special vehicles. A total of 3,675 medical staff who were sent to support Hubei Province returned to their provinces (cities and districts) on July 17. During their stay in Wuhan, Hubei Province, they supported patients in 14 cabin hospitals and seven designated hospitals.

 

Strict measures to prevent the import of the affected cases.

 

While China's epidemic situation is gradually coming under control, the number of COVID-19 cases is rising rapidly in other countries. The WHO has declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11. As of March 17, outside China, 88,927 cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed and 4,254 people have died.

 

Medical aid team in Italy. ( Photo/ Hongxing News)

 

The virus is the common enemy of mankind, and the epidemic situation has no national boundaries. Since February 29, China has sent four teams of medical experts to Iran, Iraq and Italy to help fight the epidemic and donated medical equipment and nucleic acid testing reagents to these countries.(By Edina Liang)