{"id":14867,"date":"2020-04-16T11:42:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T08:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=14867"},"modified":"2020-04-16T11:42:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T08:42:41","slug":"africa-imports-chinese-doctors-to-fight-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/16\/africa-imports-chinese-doctors-to-fight-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Imports Chinese Doctors To Fight COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teams of Chinese doctors have set off to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso to support efforts to fight coronavirus pandemic, state-owned&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2020-04-16\/Chinese-medical-teams-head-to-Ethiopia-Burkina-Faso-PJxCh78pva\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China Global Television Network reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their exact number unspecified, but they are drawn from Sichuan Province and Tianjin Municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They left for Africa on Thursday according to China&#8217;s foreign ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They will share experience, provide guidance and technical advice on epidemic prevention in the two countries, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nigeria also plans to bring 18 Chinese doctors into the country to help fight the coronavirus, but local doctors have voiced their displeasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nigerian Medical Association said it would be better to make use of the many unemployed or under-employed medical personnel already in the country. It also said the Chinese doctors would not be familiar with the culture or challenges of working in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports have emerged of hundreds of Africans evicted from their homes and hotels in the Chinese city of Guangzhou over fears the coronavirus was spreading in African communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nigeria, through its embassy in Beijing, had said it is prepared to evacuate its citizens from China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teams of Chinese doctors have set off to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso to support efforts to fight coronavirus pandemic, state-owned&nbsp;China Global Television Network reports. Their exact number unspecified, but they are drawn from Sichuan Province and Tianjin Municipality. They left for Africa on Thursday according to China&#8217;s foreign ministry. They will share experience, provide guidance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":14868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14869,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14867\/revisions\/14869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}