DHAKA, June 3, 2020 (BSS) – A Chinese medical expert team with remarkable success in containing coronavirus and treating patients in China is due to arrive here with a bunch of medical equipment on June 8, Chinese embassy here confirmed it this evening.
The medical team, organized by the Chinese National Health Commission, consists of 10 respiratory physicians selected by the Hainan Provincial Health Commission, a Chinese embassy official here told BSS.
In their two-week stay in Bangladesh, he said the experts would visit designated hospitals, quarantine centers, and testing centers, discuss on the epidemics with Bangladeshi counterparts, and make calibrated propositions for containment and treatment.
He said the initiative has been taken as one of the reflections of Chinese President Xi’s assurance to support Bangladesh in its combat against the deadly virus
On May 20, Chinese President Xi Jinping called Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and proposed sending an expert team to help Bangladesh combat the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Many cooperative measures have been taken by the Chinese side and most of which have already been implemented in Bangladesh since the outbreak here, said the Chinese diplomat.
Bangladesh today reported 37 more fatalities from the coronavirus in a daily count, raising the death toll from the pandemic to 746 while the caseload surged to 55,140 after 2,695 new COVID-19 cases were detected in the last 24 hours.