Chinese medical experts share their experience with Italian doctors via videoconference. [photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

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 March 26.

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.

Chinese medical experts share their experience with Italian doctors via videoconference. [photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

The medical team also provided answers to a list of quesitons related to ways the virus is spread and how to lower the risk of infection, among other questions Italian people are axious about.

The list with answers from the Chinese doctors was issued to the public through the Italian media.

"We classified and discussed the questions," said Guo Yansong, vice-director of Fujian Provincial Hospital South Branch. "The more detailed our answers are, the more help they will provide."

Chinese medical experts share their experience with Italian doctors via videoconference. [photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

The medical team also introduced the latest edition of China's plan for managing COVID-19, the associated pneumonia, and shared their experience with early detection, reporting, isolation and treatment. It also provided guidance on the resumption of production and jobs.

"The Chinese experts not only brought the medical equipment and supplies we urgently needed, but also shared experience directly with our doctors, which is of great help in this most difficult time in battling the epidemic," said an official from the health authority in Tuscany.

The Chinese team will communicate with several medical institutions in coming days in a bid to help curb the epidemic, authorities said.