Chinese team shares expertise in Italy

The third Chinese medical team to go to Italy is cooperating via teleconference with doctors in the country battling the coronavirus and its related pneumonia, COVID-19.

Two teleconferences were held on Thursday.

The meetings, which were held in Florence, were livestreamed across Italy. The Chinese experts fielded questions about the policies of epidemic management, test methods, treatments and diagnostic standards.

"The incubation period of the novel coronavirus pneumonia is generally 14 days, and that's why isolation lasts two weeks. Patients can infect others two days before exhibiting symptoms," said Wu Gensheng, associate senior doctor from Fujian province's Center for Disease Control and Prevention in answer to questions.