Medical team, equipment sent to support border city's COVID-19 control

Northeast China's Liaoning Province has dispatched a medical team and equipment to the city of Suifenhe, at the China-Russia border in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, to support its prevention and control of imported COVID-19 cases, local authorities said Monday.

The team consisting of 12 staff from the First Hospital of China Medical University, together with "mobile hospital" equipment, mobile X-ray and CT machines, set off from Shenyang, capital of Liaoning, to Suifenhe Monday afternoon, said the provincial health commission.

As of midnight Saturday, Suifenhe had reported 194 confirmed cases and more than 100 asymptomatic coronavirus carriers.