According to the National Health Commission, the team will follow up on the work carried out by the preceding brigades to strengthen the response to the outbreak.

  The mission comprises specialists from the National Health Commission, the General Administration of Customs, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

  The experts cover areas such as epidemiology, health quarantine, clinical care, and laboratory pathogen diagnosis, and possess experience in combating epidemics.

  A National Health Commission official noted that the group will continue providing technical assistance in local communities, share prevention and control experiences, refine outbreak response procedures, and help strengthen local capacity to tackle the disease.   The source added that the specialists will work alongside the Chinese medical mission already in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and bolster cooperation with the country’s health authorities and international organizations.

  China has maintained health cooperation programs with African countries for years and has sent technical assistance and medical equipment to respond to various public health emergencies, including Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where more than 3,500 Ebola cases have been recorded in just a few months.

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