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The Chinese anti-epidemic medical expert team has hosted a training course, covering 10 sectors when treating COVID-19 cases, to relevant Lao health ministry officials and doctors, nurses from major hospitals in Lao capital Vientiane.
Shi Tongchuan, deputy head of the Chinese medical expert team, told Xinhua on Tuesday that the training on Monday mainly aimed at reducing infection risks in hospitals.
The Chinese experts answered questions from their Lao counterparts, conducted operational demonstrations to provide effective suggestions for reducing the risk of cross-infection in the hospitals.
On the same day, the expert team also participated in a regular meeting of the epidemic prevention and control committee chaired by Lao Minister of Health Bounkong Sihavong.
At the regular meeting, the Chinese experts emphasized the importance on further strengthening the accurate classification and precise management of overseas Lao workers, on comprehensively expanding the coverage of nucleic acid testing, so as to find the infected cases in time.
The Chinese team, also visited the government-designated Mittaphap Hospital (Hospital 150), which so far is the only hospital in Vientiane treating COVID-19 cases, and shared their experiences with their Lao counterparts and checked the hospital's newly-opened zone for receiving COVID-19 cases to assure its smooth and proper operation.
Laos detected its first two confirmed COVID-19 cases on March 24, and only in five days, the Chinese anti-epidemic medical expert team arrived in Vientiane on March 29.
The Chinese medical team includes experts in various fields such as infection prevention and control, intensive care, epidemics, and laboratory testing. They also brought along with them medical treatment, protective supplies and a batch of Chinese and Western medicines.
The Lao Health Ministry announced at its daily press conference that the country has detected 14 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of Tuesday afternoon.
