Oita City Send 30,000 masks to Wuhan, a friendship city January 27 19:43
Oita City, which has formed a friendly city tie-up with Wuhan, has been using 30,000 masks to help prevent infection on the 27th due to a series of new types of pneumonia caused by coronavirus, mainly in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Sent to the site.
Oita City and Wuhan entered into a friendship city tie-up in 1979 from the connection of the steel industry as a key industry, and have continued to exchange since then.
On the other hand, the number of patients with pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus continued to increase, and the event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the friendship city scheduled to be held in Oita on March 8 was postponed.
Under such circumstances, Oita City decided to send 30,000 masks stored in the disaster prevention warehouse to the site to help prevent infection.
The cardboard with the mask says "Wuhan, do your best" in Chinese, and at 4:00 pm on the 27th, the car with the mask left the city hall.
Yuichi Eto, Chief of Oita City's Culture and International Affairs Division, said, "In Wuhan, a friendship city, the situation has continued to be great since last week with more patients. I would like to be able to help a little while keeping close contact with Wuhan." .