On February 5, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying thanked 21 governments and UNICEF. The governments of 21 countries, including South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Hungary, Belarus, Turkey, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Egypt, Australia, New Zealand, and Trinidad and Tobago, have donated medical supplies to China.
During the severe period of the epidemic in China, Japanese private citizens organized their own donation campaigns,*** counting 1 million masks. Ma reached out to Toshihiro Niji, the honorary chairman of Japan's Agency for Internationalization of Healthcare, to help find protective clothing, which Ali would purchase. Japan, in turn, decided to donate 124,200 protective suits to China at no cost. In the end, the two sides decided that 100,000 protective suits would be donated by Japan and 24,200 suits would be procured by Ali.
South Korea's foreign ministry has donated about 2.33 million yuan worth of medical protection materials to Chongqing, including protective clothing, goggles , masks and so on. The medical supplies include 30,000 protective suits, 30,000 masks, 30,000 goggles, 30,000 pairs of disposable latex gloves and 2,400 bottles of hand sanitizer.
Thailand donated two shipments of protective materials to China, destined for Kunming and Chengdu respectively. The two shipments were donated by the Thai Chamber of Commerce, which included 121,000 disposable masks, 650 n95 masks, 2,000 protective suits, 600 protective glasses, and 111,000 disposable gloves to Kunming; and one ****121 masks and protective suits to Chengdu.
Belarus donated medical equipment, masks, hand sanitizers and medical commodities*** totaling 26 tons. Belarusian Chinese Chamber of Commerce personnel also donated, disposable medical masks, protective clothing, gloves, goggles and other 308,323 pieces. Malaysia donated 18 million medical gloves to China. As the saying goes? A friend in need is a friend in need? We, the Chinese people, would like to express our heartfelt thanks to these countries. We in China are confident and capable of overcoming this epidemic.