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China to provide most advanced coronavirus detecting kits to Bangladesh
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and Health Minister Zahid Maleque have handed over some medical kits to Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka.
The medical kits containing 1 million hand gloves, 500,000 facemasks, 150,000 caps, 100,000 hand sanitizers, 50,000 shoe-covers and 8,000 gowns were handed over as a gesture of goodwill from Bangladesh to China at a function held in Dhaka on Tuesday, reports BSS.
Momen thanked the Chinese government for extending all-out cooperation and support to Bangladesh in bringing back 312 Bangladesh nationals from Wuhan city, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak.
The health minister said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directed his ministry to send the medical kits to China to stand by the Chinese government and all the medical kits are made in Bangladesh.
He also said the students who returned from China are not affected with coronavirus and till now no coronavirus affected patient were found in Bangladesh.
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming said: “We thank Bangladesh government and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her generosity.”
China will provide 500 sets of most advanced kits to Bangladesh to identify coronavirus, he said.
He said the Chinese embassy has just ordered 500 test kits from Beijing Genomics Institute to help enhance Bangladesh’s capacity to detect coronavirus.
https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangla...ical-logistics-to-china-to-combat-coronavirus
