A team of Chinese medical experts has visited the northern Laos where the COVID-19 pandemic is ravaging, boosting Lao people's confidence in winning the war against the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Chinese medical experts, along with medical materials, arrived in Laos on May 4 to help the country fight the virus.

From May 9 to 14, the Chinese medical experts visited four northern Lao provinces of Luang Prabang, Bokeo, Oudomxay and Luang Namtha to assess the situation of the COVID-19 epidemic and provide suggestions and guidance to local health authorities and medical staff.

They also trained and answered questions from the local medical staff, optimized treatment for confirmed COVID-19 patients, visited local virology testing laboratories as well as quarantine centers and vaccination sites, fed back their assessments to the local governments, and put forward rectification options for prevention and control of the virus, among others.