As a Chinese saying goes, "The grace of dripping water should be reciprocated by a gushing spring." When the pandemic spread in ASEAN countries, China came to their help after it contained its own outbreak.
Less than five days after Laos reported its first two imported COVID-19 cases on March 24, a team of Chinese medical experts from China's southwestern Yunnan Province flew to the Lao capital of Vientiane with medical supplies.
"We will join the Lao side to perfect its epidemic prevention and control system, and draw up a diagnosis and treatment guideline that suits the Lao situation. In short, we are together to formulate a roadmap for the fight against COVID-19 in Laos," Huang Xingli, head of the Chinese medical expert team, told Xinhua.
In the Philippines, a 12-member Chinese medical team was also racing against time to help contain the killer virus as the total number of infections in the country surpassed 4,600, with 297 deaths.
"We'd like to see the frontline experience be brought here in the Philippines, so we should be able to learn and eventually curtail and fight COVID-19 here in the Philippines," Assistant Health Secretary Kenneth Ronquillo said after a briefing session with the Chinese medical experts.
In the meantime, a medical team from southwest China's Yunnan Province arrived in Yangon on April 8 to assist Myanmar's efforts against COVID-19 as the country has reported 39 cases so far. Along with the team also arrived 5.3 tons of materials, lab testing equipment and protective gears.
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