China donates 20,000 masks to help Karachiites fight COVID-19

KARACHI: The mayor of Chinese city of Zhangjiajie has donated 20,000 medical, surgical masks to the Karachi commissioner to help fight coronavirus pandemic.

Official sources said on Sunday that the gift from the municipal government of the Chinese city was handed to Commissioner Iftikhar Shallwani at his office.

They said that the commissioner thanked the Chinese government, especially the mayor of Zhangjiajie, saying Pakistan had a long and strong relationship with China and the gift would further strengthen the friendly relationship between the two countries and would open the corridor of mutual relationship between the two cities.

Mayor Liu Gean wrote a letter to the commissioner expressing the desire to further promote cooperation between the two cities.

In the letter, he said he was looking forward to working in travel, economy and trade, culture, education, etc, to strengthen the exchanges for a better future and benefit the people of the two cities.

Mr Liu further said that he was very worried about the Covid-19 situation in Karachi and hoped that the donation of masks would contribute a little bit to its fight.

He expressed the hope that the people of the city would soon resume normal life.