Ecuadorian Vice-President Otto Sonnenholzner recently said in a post on social media that, thanks to the support of Huawei Cloud, Ecuador has become the first country in Latin America to have an AI-enabled auxiliary diagnostic system in two local hospitals.

Zheng Yelai, president of Huawei Cloud, said, "The AI-enabled system can help doctors make faster, more accurate decisions on whether patients are infected with the virus."

According to the company, it took only 14 hours for Huawei and Huiying to connect the system to a hospital in Ecuador. Hospitals in dozens of countries are contacting Huawei Cloud for possible cooperation to use the system.

Shi Yuxin, deputy head of the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, said in an earlier interview that computerized tomography imaging is an important reference for the diagnosis and treatment of novel coronavirus pneumonia.

AI-enabled systems can help classify the pneumonia caused by the virus according to its severity and calculate the burden on the lungs. Traditional quantitative analysis performed by humans usually requires up to six hours, but the AI system is able to perform the same task within a minute, Shi said.

In addition to offering cutting-edge technology and solutions, an increasing number of Chinese enterprises and residents are providing much-needed medical protective gear to foreign countries.

Jack Ma, founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding, said, "At such a moment, only by sharing resources and experiences can we overcome the disaster."

The Jack Ma Foundation and the Alibaba Foundation have increased efforts to provide medical masks and protective suits to many European countries and the United States.

Africa's response to the outbreak also received a major boost when the two foundations donated more than 1.5 million laboratory diagnostic test kits and over 100 metric tons of infection prevention and control materials to the continent.

A number of Chinese tech companies have also launched platforms on which Chinese doctors can offer online medical advice to people overseas. The Hangzhou-based digital health company WeDoctor has launched a Chinese-English language platform, the Global Consultation and Prevention Center, in a bid to integrate medical resources from home and abroad.