The medical experts pose for a group photo with their colleagues before leaving for Italy from Sichuan Province, southwest China, March 11, 2020. (Xinhua)
CHENGDU, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Four medical experts and one Italian-language lecturer in southwest China's Sichuan Province set out for Shanghai on Wednesday for their flight to Italy, in a bid to assist the country to fight against the novel coronavirus outbreak.
The five experts will join a voluntary expert team organized by the Red Cross Society of China and the whole team will fly to Italy.
Photo taken on March 10, 2020 shows a view of the Piazza del Popolo in Rome, Italy, on the first day of the lockdown of the country. (Xinhua/Cheng Tingting)
"Once we arrive in Italy, we'll get down to learning about the situation there and exchange anti-epidemic experience and cooperate with the Italian medics," said Liang Zongan, director of the department of pulmonary and critical care medicine of the West China Hospital of Sichuan University. ■
