Laos honours Chinese army medical team with friendship crosses


PLA anti-epidemic medical experts helped Laos and other countries in the region with testing and control of Covid-19. - China Daily/ANN

VIENTIANE (Xinhua): The Lao Ministry of Defence has awarded Lao People's Army friendship crosses to members of the Chinese army medical expert team which has been assisting Laos in battling the Covid-19 pandemic in the past two months.

Ti Xinyu, leader of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) medical expert team, said at the cross-conferring ceremony on Wednesday that in the past two months, his team has fully shared China's anti-epidemic experiences with the Lao side, carried out cooperation with the Lao army over virus testing and confirmation, environmental disinfection and infection control, epidemiological investigation and personnel protection, and diagnosis and treatment training.

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