ISLAMABAD – A particular Chinese language flight carrying an eight-member group of medical specialists and reduction help landed Saturday at Islamabad Worldwide Airport to help Pakistan in its efforts to struggle the Covid-19 pandemic.
{Foreign Minister} Shah Mahmood Qureshi, International Secretary Sohail Mahmood, Chairman of Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Authority Lt. Normal Muhammad Afzal and Chinese language Ambassador in Pakistan Yao Jing obtained the friends and thanked the federal government and other people of China, on behalf of the federal government and other people of Pakistan, for his or her well timed help on this troublesome time.
China is extending full help to Pakistan in its efforts to include the coronavirus. China’s help to Pakistan to this point contains 12,000 take a look at kits, 300,000 masks, 10,000 protecting fits, and help to construct an isolation hospital.
The aircraft carried over 10,000 take a look at kits, 10,000 N95 masks, 100,000 disposable medical masks,5,000 medical protecting garments, 5 ventilators, 11 defibrillator screens and 62,000 units of medicine for treating COVID-19.
A substantial quantity of donations from non-public sources from China has additionally arrived in Pakistan. Alibaba Basis and Jack Ma Basis have donated 50,000 take a look at kits and 500,000 face masks. China additionally handed over two tons of masks, take a look at kits, ventilators, medical protecting garments by means of Khunjerab.
The group of medical specialists will help the native docs and well being specialists in battling the coronavirus. The group will keep in Pakistan for 2 weeks.
The Pakistan-China All-weather Strategic Cooperative Partnership has acquired higher power and depth in recent times, guided by the shared imaginative and prescient of Prime Minister Imran Khan and President Xi Jinping.
President Dr Arif Alvi, accompanied by {Foreign Minister} Qureshi and Minister for Planning and Growth Asad Umar, visited Beijing on March 16-17, 2020 to precise Pakistan’s abiding help and solidarity with China in its struggle in opposition to Coronavirus.
Pakistan and China proceed to collaborate carefully and coordinate reduction help to counter the formidable challenges posed by COVID-19.
Speaking to media individuals on the airport {Foreign Minister} Shah Mahmood Qureshi thanked the Chinese language management for sending the medical group to share their experiences with Pakistani counterparts to struggle the pandemic.
“Chinese have once again shown to the world that they are friends of Pakistan. They care for us. We stand with each other in difficult times. This is a unique relationship and such testing times tell us how close we are to each other,” he remarked.
The overseas minister mentioned the federal government’s first precedence was to guard medical employees who had been within the first line of obligation for what the provides had arrived and could be distributed quickly.
He mentioned the federal government was attempting to double the variety of the ventilators and the testing capability which might be remarkably enhanced after the arrival of a walk-through testing facility.
Concerning the return of the stranded Pakistanis overseas, the overseas minister mentioned the preparations had been being made to obtain them on the airport. Later, he additionally inspected the preparations on the airport the place he was additionally briefed by the well being officers concerning the protocols to be adopted on the arrival of the Pakistanis from overseas.
