Russian government and Moscow authorities have taken timely and effective measures to combat the spread of coronavirus, a member of the delegation of Chinese medical experts, Head of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Heilongjiang Province Wang Kaili, told the reporters.
“The media also behaved in the right way, since COVID-19 is a completely new type of virus that humanity has encountered, we are all together in the process of research of this situation”, – he said.
China sent a group of ten experts to Russia to assist with COVID-19. According to the Chinese embassy, doctors arrived in Moscow on April 11.
“The expert group mainly conducts exchange of views and discussions with Russian specialists, shares experience, cannot make a clinical diagnosis of patients and conduct treatment, since in Russia there are strict laws, only qualified Russian doctors can treat patients”, – the office added Foreign Affairs Government of Heilongjiang.
Pandemic COVID-19
185 countries are affected by SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19). According to WHO, at least 1.8 million cases have been reported in the world, over 113 thousand of them have died.
At the same time, according to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, almost two million people became infected, more than 120 thousand died. The largest number of victims is in the USA, Italy, Spain and France. China, the initial epicenter of the outbreak, announced victory over the epidemic a few weeks ago.