A medical rescue team is formed in the Central Hospital of Ordos on Dec 3 to aid Manzhouli city. [Photo/Ordos Release]

The city of Ordos – located in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region – sent its first medical rescue team to help fight the novel coronavirus epidemic in Manzhouli city on Dec 3, the Ordos Daily reported.

The Ordos rescue team consisted of 19 doctors and 50 nurses, who are from the Critical Care Medicine Division, the Internal Medicine Division and the Intensive Care Unit of the Central Hospital of Ordos.

Flowers are given to members of the medical team before they head to Manzhouli city. [Photo/Ordos Release]

Among them, four medical staff members had outstanding performances ratings in the medical team assisting Central China's Hubei province in 2020.

Manzhouli is the largest rail and land port on the China-Russia border in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region. The city has experienced a new round of the COVID-19 outbreak since Nov 27.

Medical team members wave to cameras in a bus heading to Manzhouli city. [Photo/Ordos Release]