A team of Chinese health experts reached Islamabad on March 28 to assess the preventive measures taken by the government so far to fight the COVID-19. The team will remain in Pakistan for two weeks. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Foreign Secretary Sohail welcomed the Chinese team. The flight which came from Xinjiang also brought 50,000 masks for the federal and Sindh government. So far, China has donated 12,000 test kits, 300,000 masks, 10,000 protective suits and US$4m, which goes toward building an isolation hospital though the Foreign Office has not revealed details about the hospital.
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