On February 5th, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying expressed her gratitude to 21 governments and UNICEF. The governments of 21 countries including Korea, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Hungary, Belarus, Turkey, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Egypt, Australia, New Zealand and Trinidad and Tobago donated medical materials to China.
During the period of severe epidemic in China, Japanese people spontaneously organized donation activities, and donated 1 million masks. Ma Yun contacted Nikai Toshihiro, honorary chairman of Japanese medical internationalization organization, hoping to help find protective clothing, which will be purchased by Ali. Japan decided to donate 124,2 sets of protective clothing to China for free. Finally, the two sides decided that 1, sets of protective clothing were donated by Japan and 24,2 sets were purchased by Ali.
The Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs donated about 2.33 million yuan worth of medical protective materials to Chongqing, including protective clothing, goggles and masks. The medical supplies include 3, protective clothing, 3, masks, 3, goggles, 3, pairs of disposable latex gloves and 2,4 bottles of hand sanitizer.
Thailand donated two batches of protective materials to China and shipped them to Kunming and Chengdu respectively. The two shipments were donated by the Thai Chamber of Commerce, including 121, disposable masks, 65 n95 masks, 2, protective clothing, 6 protective glasses and 111, disposable gloves. One ***121 masks and protective clothing were shipped to Chengdu.
Belarus donated 26 tons of medical instruments, masks, hand sanitizers and medical commodities. The staff of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Belarus also donated 38,323 disposable medical masks, protective clothing, gloves and goggles. Malaysian donated 18 million medical gloves to China. As the saying goes? A friend in need is a friend indeed? We in China would like to express our heartfelt thanks to these countries. We in China are confident and capable of overcoming this epidemic.