All in the Same Boat
Apr 16, 2020
4 minutes
By Ma Miaomiao
Copyedited by Sudeshna Sarkar
Twelve years ago, when an earthquake struck Wenchuan, a county in southwest China, Italy was the first country to send a medical team to support the relief work. This year again, when China fought the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in January, Italy provided urgently needed medical supplies.
China reciprocated the support weeks later when Italy grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic. A charter flight carrying Chinese medical experts and supplies alighted at the Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome on March 12. “We are ready to share China’s hard-won diagnostic and treatment guidelines as well as our first-hand experience,” Lu Ming, a staff with
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