NICOSIA, April 12 (Xinhua) -- A third batch of China-donated medical supplies will be transported to Cyprus next week with a Cypriot chartered flight, the Chinese Embassy in Cyprus announced on Sunday.
Chinese Ambassador to Cyprus Huang Xingyuan and Cypriot Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides will attend the handover ceremony of the supplies on Monday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nicosia, said the Embassy in an statement.
According to the Chinese Embassy, the second batch of China-donated medical supplies arrived at Larnaca on April 11 via a Cypriot chartered flight along with other procured goods.
It included 20,600 FFP2 masks, 110,000 disposable medical masks, 30,000 non-medical masks and 500 non-medical protective coveralls donated by the Chinese Embassy in Cyprus, Chinese companies and sister cities.
The third batch, which includes 5,000 protective coveralls, 417 sets of test kits adequate for 10,008 persons, and 10,000 N95 masks coming from the official aid from the Chinese government to the government of Cyprus, along with 50,000 disposable medical masks donated by a sister city, will be transported to Cyprus aboard another Cypriot chartered flight, according to the Embassy's statement.
"In the past two weeks, the Embassy of China in Cyprus has made or is making free provisions of over 14,000 disposable medical and non-medical masks to the municipality of Paphos, local hospitals, schools and government departments to help alleviate the shortage in medical supplies," the statement said.
It added that since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Europe, the China Embassy has been working in partnership with the Cypriot Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Health on a non-stop basis.
"Chinese local governments such as the City of Jinhua of Zhejiang Province, Chinese companies such as Huawei, and cities of Nanjing and Guangzhou have all done their part by lending a helping hand in different ways. We are pleased to have learned that the Chinese communities in Cyprus and their Cypriot neighbors and friends have been voluntarily helping each other in this difficult time. Nothing could have been more effective in demonstrating the true spirit of Strength in Unity," the Embassy's statement added.
The statement also noted that through joint efforts of both China and Cyprus, Cyprus will be able to win the fight against COVID-19 soon and the friendship and partnership between the two countries "will come out of the pandemic even closer and poised for further growth."
