Virus just one more woe to contend with

Saturday, medical supplies that a Chinese company donated arrived in Algeria on Friday, and a Chinese bank announced the same day that it was donating medical supplies and cash to Turkey.

Two mobile cabin hospitals have been set up in Iran, said Wu Huanyu, a member of the expert team and professor with Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

“And more mobile hospitals will be built.”

In a video conference on Thursday, Chinese medical experts spoke to their counterparts in several Middle Eastern countries including Libya, Turkey, Lebanon and Syria about fighting the pandemic.

“We discussed the Chinese plan in dealing with the coronavirus and the way to treat the infected people and suspected cases,” said Samir Nairat, director of Jenin Government Hospital in the West Bank.

As the virus spread in the world, the conference was well timed, Nairat said.

Chinese medical teams and aid supplies have also been sent to Europe and Africa.

On Saturday a group of Chinese medical workers from Shandong province arrived in London to assist in the fight against COVID-19.

Of the medical supplies and equipment from China that arrived in Tunisia on Saturday, the country’s presidency said: “China has responded without hesitation to the presidency’s request to protect the medical and paramedical staff, as well as all agents of various other sectors who are standing in the frontline of this war that all humanity is fighting.”