CHINA-PAKISTAN: PAKISTAN GIVES MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO CHINA
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said the Pakistani side firmly supports China's efforts to combat the epidemic and expresses gratitude to China for providing help to Pakistani citizens in China. He added the Pakistani side strongly believes that China can give full play to its unique institutional advantages to overcome the epidemic and that Pakistan is willing to mobilize all the country's medical supplies and reserves to assist China, and will firmly stand alongside the brotherly Chinese people. The Pakistani government, meanwhile, sent its first consignment of aid to China to facilitate the Chinese government's fight against the novel coronavirus. The Pakistani government has allocated 300,000 medical masks, 800 hazmat suits and 6,800 pairs of gloves from the stocks of public hospitals around the nation and transported the aid to China. The medical supplies from Pakistan arrived in China on February 1.
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