China exports over 224B masks to assist global COVID-19 fight
Pub Date:2021-01-15 08:53 Source:Xinhua
Workers
make face masks at a workshop in a medical equipment company in Anshan,
northeast China's Liaoning Province, April 16, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
China
exported 224.2 billion masks between March and the end of December in
2020 to assist the international community in fighting COVID-19,
official data showed Thursday.
Among the exported masks, a total of 65 billion are for medical use, according to the General Administration of Customs (GAC).
The
country has exported 773 million medical protective suits and 2.92
billion pairs of surgical gloves during the same period to protect
disease control personnel in the global fight against COVID-19.
China
also exported 1.08 billion nucleic acid testing kits to provide support
for COVID-19 test work worldwide and 271,000 ventilators in 2020.
"We
have capitalized on our position as the first country to take the lead
in work resumption and the largest supplier of anti-epidemic materials,"
said GAC spokesperson Li Kuiwen.
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