China sends the fourth medical team to Samoa to treat COVID-19 patients in November 2020

On November 4, 2020, the Chinese Embassy in Samoa and the Samoa Ministry of Health held a reception ceremony to welcome the arrival fourth Chinese medical teams to Samoa as well as to celebrate the third team's departure. The medical team programs started in 2018, and the rotation is typically every half a year. The medical teams will work to treat patients with COVID-19 in Samoa. Ambassador Chao Xiaoliang, Chief Executive Officer Nasari of the Ministry of Health of Samoa, and all members of the medical aid teams attended the event. This is fourth medical teams sent from China. The team concluded its mission on or before 4/29/2021 and has returned to China.

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Due to the lack of reports, specifics on the work of previous/following medical teams may not be fully documented in this database; the completion date was estimated using the fifth team's start date reported in media source 169014.

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