Last week, a 12-member Chinese medical team arrived in the Philippines to aid in the fight against the virus. On the Chinese team's advice, Serbia began quarantining people with mild symptoms and deploying troops to build field hospitals for patients with mild symptoms. 'THANK YOU, BIG BROTHER XI'Despite its medical outreach efforts, China has faced sharp criticism in Washington and elsewhere for suppressing early information on the virus and downplaying its risks. The response to the outreach from China in countries like Serbia, however, has so far been positive. In Belgrade, the Chinese team visited a memorial to those killed in 1999 when American bombs hit China's embassy there in what Washington apologised for as an accident.

Source: bd News24 April 13, 2020 02:37 UTC