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Gratitude to China for helping Serbia to fight COVID-19

Belgrade, 1 May 2020

President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic and Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Serbia Chen Bo discussed today results of the joint fight against the coronavirus epidemic in Serbia and the assistance China has provided to our country.

After the meeting, Vucic and Bo spoke with a team of Chinese doctors and experts who came to Serbia more than a month ago to help fight COVID-19, and Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin also attended the meeting.

Six of China's most eminent experts who fought the COVID-19 infectious disease in Wuhan arrived in Serbia on 21 March, when the first contingent of medical supplies and equipment was shipped from China.

During their stay in Serbia, Chinese experts toured COVID hospitals around the country and shared their experiences in preventing and combating the epidemic with their Serbian colleagues, and assisted in launching the Fire Eye Lab at the Clinical Centre of Serbia, which is a donation from China.

After the talks with the ambassador and the doctors from China, the president said that part of the team of Chinese experts is returning to China today, while three doctors will remain in Serbia and three more experts will come soon from that country.

He announced that around 9 May, two trains of 40 wagons each with medical equipment will depart from China, but also with goods under previous contracts in other areas.

The Chinese government has made it possible for Serbia to acquire at affordable prices the equipment, clinical ventilators and more, Vucic said, reiterating that we will never forget the help of China without which we would not be able to fight COVID-19 like this.

The president confirmed that he had also discussed with the Chinese partners the digitisation of our health system, with the intention of creating a state-of-the-art research laboratory in Europe where virus mutation could be analysed.

A modern laboratory will soon be established in Nis for the east of Serbia.

Vucic added that, according to the test results, today we have the lowest infection rate so far, which is about three percent of all those tested. He noted that the results would have been much better had it not been for the Gerontology Center in Nis, from which 43 people had already died.