Two million hospitalsmasker and 50,000 test kits are donated to the EU from China. It’s Monday arrived in Italy.
China pledged in march to donate two million hospitalsmasker, of 50,000 test kits and 200,000 face masks to the EU.
It is Monday been delivered in Rome, Italy by a chinese aircraft.
the EU’s Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) – which coordinates the provision of assistance to katastrofeberørte countries – have decided that the donation from China to the EU to be delivered to Italy, which is particularly hard hit by the coronapandemien.
And it is important to help each other in these times, says the EU’s krisekommissær, Janez Lenarcic.
– We are thankful for China’s support, and president von der Leyen said, we need each other’s support in times of need.
– the EU and China have been working together since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, he says.
It is the EUROPEAN Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, who got a deal with China’s prime minister, Li Keqiang, on the guard 18. march.
An essential support for the EU in the fight against the virus, said von der Leyen.
In January donated the EU around 50 tonnes of protective equipment to China, when the country was hit hard by the virus and needed help.
The equipment was provided by France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Estonia, Austria, the Czech republic, Hungary and Slovenia, through the EU civil protection mechanism.
the european UNION has been weeks epicentrum for coronapandemien, which according to the WHO, began in China in december last year.
It is especially the north of Italy, which has been hardest hit by the coronavirusset.
In total, Italy has registered more than 15,000 coronadødsfald, which is higher than any other country in the world.
According to a statement from Johns Hopkins University are over a million people registered as infected worldwide.
Many countries don’t test everyone with symptoms of the virus, and therefore the real number of the infected will be much higher.
Over 70,000 reported died worldwide as a result of the disease Covid-19, which is the disease, the coronavirus can cause.
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