"In order to help Russia overcome the oubreak of coronavirus infection, the Chinese government made a decision to send to Russia a group of medical experts to fight against the pandemic," the spokesman said. He added that medical professionals departed for Russia on April 11.
Sina news portal reported on Saturday that 10 Chinese experts flew to Russia from Harbin in Heilongjiang province.
Already a 15 man team from China are in Nigeria helping the West African country to contain the spread of the pandemic virus that has killed more than 100,000 people and infected more the 1.6mln worldwide.
In late December 2019, Chinese officials notified the World Health Organization (WHO) about the outbreak of a previously unknown pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, in central China. Since then, cases of the novel coronavirus — named COVID-19 by the WHO — have been reported in every corner of the globe, including Russia.
Over 357,000 individuals have recovered from the illness across the globe.
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