Pedestrians wearing face masks cross a road during a Lunar New Year of the Rat public holiday in Hong Kong on January 27, 2020, as a preventative measure following a coronavirus outbreak which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan - AFP
BEIJING, Feb 5 (MENA) - The China Global Television Network (CGTN) shed light on Egypt's dispatch of medical supplies to shore up China's efforts to fight pneumonia or infection to lungs caused by the deadly Wuhan coronavirus.
CGTN highlighted that Egypt sent 10 tons of medical supplies to China, to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, affirming that the Egyptian state would provide support to the Chinese people in Egypt.
The network also underlined that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi sent a cable to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to affirm Egypt's trust in China's ability to combat and contain the outbreak of the virus.
So far, the epidemic, which broke out in central China's Wuhan City, has infected 24,363 people and killed 491 in China.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said that lots of countries have supported China to win the battle against the epidemic, and that China has received supplies from countries including South Korea, Japan, the UK, France, Turkey, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Iran, Belarus and Indonesia.
Comments
Leave a Comment