A team of four medical experts depart from Guangzhou, Guangdong province, for Peru on May 22, 2020, to help fight the coronavirus epidemic. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

A team of four medical experts departed from Guangzhou, Guangdong province, in a chartered plane bound for Peru on May 22 to help the South American country fight the coronavirus epidemic.

All the experts came from Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University and have different specialties, the provincial health commission said.

The specialists are Guo Yi (public health management), Liu Laiyu (respiratory and critical medicine), Wu Yongming (neurology and critical medicine) and Zhou Hao (hospital infection control).

The team is the fourth group to be sent overseas from Guangdong province to help with the fight against the epidemic. Other teams were sent to Serbia, Iraq and Malaysia.