{"id":23102,"date":"2020-03-28T23:55:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T06:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23102"},"modified":"2020-03-28T23:55:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T06:55:40","slug":"chinese-team-and-equipment-arrive-in-uk-to-support-virus-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23102","title":{"rendered":"Chinese team and equipment arrive in UK to support virus fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"info\">\n<h6>By Han Baoyi in London | chinadaily.com.cn<\/h6>\n<h6>Updated:\u00a0March 29, 2020<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content videoPlayer\">\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"img-5e7f9787a3103a246694e765\" src=\"https:\/\/enapp.chinadaily.com.cn\/images\/202003\/29\/5e7f9787a3103a246694e765.jpeg\" data-from=\"newsroom\" data-mimetype=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><figcaption>China sends an expert team and a large shipment of medical equipment to the United Kingdom on Saturday to help in the fight against COVID-19.\u00a0[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>China sent an expert team and a large shipment of medical equipment to the United Kingdom on Saturday to help in the fight against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The team, sent from East China&#8217; Shandong province, comprises 15 experts and doctors who are specialists in disease control, traditional Chinese and Western medicine, psychology, nursing, and other fields.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to conducting epidemiological investigation and epidemic prevention education in the UK, they will also participate in disease prevention and treatment work.<\/p>\n<p>They brought with them up to 17.5 tons of medical supplies, including traditional Chinese medicine, personal protective equipment, epidemic prevention educational materials, and other equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Liu Jiayi, Party chief of Shandong, went to the airport to see the team off and expressed thanks on behalf the provincial Party committee and the provincial government.<\/p>\n<p>He said the team will introduce epidemic prevention and control knowledge and experience to people in the UK, especially Chinese overseas students, workers at Chinese-funded institutions and enterprises, and other overseas Chinese people.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"img-5e7f9787a3103a246694e767\" src=\"https:\/\/enapp.chinadaily.com.cn\/images\/202003\/29\/5e7f9787a3103a246694e767.jpeg\" data-from=\"newsroom\" data-mimetype=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><figcaption>China sends an expert team and a large shipment of medical equipment to the United Kingdom on Saturday to help in the fight against COVID-19.\u00a0[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He said the team also aims to &#8220;guide (people) to do scientific personal protection, ease tension and anxiety, and let them feel the warmth of their motherland and the care of the people in their motherland&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>During an online conversation with the British Chamber of Commerce in China on Tuesday, Liu Xiaoming, China&#8217;s ambassador to the UK, said China encourages collaboration between business, research institutions, and colleges from both nations on vaccine and drug development to fight against the disease.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China and the UK are standing together,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I firmly believe that the relationship between our two countries will emerge even stronger, and the friendship between our peoples will emerge deeper after we win this battle against the virus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest UK government figures on Saturday, the number of people who died in the nation after being infected with the virus reached 1,019.<\/p>\n<p>There are now 17,089 confirmed cases in the UK.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"img-5e7f9787a3103a246694e769\" src=\"https:\/\/enapp.chinadaily.com.cn\/images\/202003\/29\/5e7f9787a3103a246694e769.jpeg\" data-from=\"newsroom\" data-mimetype=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><figcaption>China sends an expert team and a large shipment of medical equipment to the United Kingdom on Saturday to help in the fight against COVID-19.\u00a0[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Han Baoyi in London |&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-health","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23103,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23102\/revisions\/23103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}