Coronavirus outbreak: Chinese doctors arrive in Pakistan
- By Web Desk -
- Mar 28, 2020
ISLAMABAD: A team of Chinese doctors has arrived in Pakistan today (Saturday) to help the country in containing the spread of the coronavirus, ARY News reported.
China’s special plane carrying relief assistance has also brought eight Chinese doctors who are specialists in coronavirus.
These Chinese doctors will remain in Pakistan for two weeks and will advise our health care specialists in the light of their experience and success in battling Covid-19 in China.
China’s assistance to Pakistan so far includes 12,000 test kits, 300,000 masks, 10 thousand protective suits and 4 million dollars to build an isolation hospital.
Xinjiang government has also provided 50 thousand masks each to the Federal Capital as well as to Sindh government.
It may be noted that the virus has killed 11 people in Pakistan and around 1,300 people are under treatment in the hospitals across the country.
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China, the first country-hit by coronavirus, has successfully brought the virus under control in recent days. On Friday, the Chinese health officials had announced 55 news cases in the country and 54 of them were foreign cases.
China is already helping Pakistan with equipment, testing kits and face masks. The second shipment of equipment, announced by Alibaba Group’s co-founder Jack Ma had arrived in Pakistan Friday morning.
The previous consignment contained 500,000 masks out of which 50,000 were N-95 masks.