(Fighting New Crown Pneumonia) Global War Epidemic: Overseas Chinese in France Help French War Epidemic in French Emergency Situation
China News Agency, Paris, March 27th (Reporter Li Yang) The French new crown pneumonia epidemic is urgent, and the overseas Chinese community in France has recently felt that the severe epidemic situation has been taking shape and has become a major challenge that must be faced in daily life.
At present, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia in France has approached 30,000, and the cumulative death cases have reached 1,696. The Greater Paris area where many overseas Chinese and Chinese who are traveling to France is the most severely affected area in France, with 8762 confirmed cases and 483 deaths.
According to the reporter's understanding, a number of overseas Chinese who have traveled to France have recently been infected with the new crown virus. Among them, some have died unfortunately and died, causing shock in the overseas Chinese community. Ms. Zhu Kejia, an 80-year-old celebrity from overseas Chinese academic circles and founding chairman of the European Alumni Association of Communication University of China, contracted the new crown virus and died in Paris on the 25th.
A person familiar with the matter revealed that Zhu Kejia only had about two weeks from the onset to the death. The condition deteriorated rapidly and the rescue was ineffective. It is unclear how she was infected with the virus.
The China Media University Alumni Association and the Education Department of the Chinese Embassy in France issued separate telegrams on the 26th, expressing condolences to the death of Ms. Zhu Kejia. According to the telegram of the Alumni Association of the China Media University, at the most critical moment of the domestic epidemic in China, Zhu Kejia mobilized the European Alumni Association to actively participate in fundraising, "contributing to the domestic fight against the epidemic."
Facing the severe epidemic situation, in order to help the French medical system to alleviate the serious shortage of medical supplies, the overseas Chinese scholars in France who have just helped China to fight the epidemic overcome their serious difficulties and once again act actively to support the French epidemic.
The "Shanghai University French Alumni Association Joint Platform", composed of the French Alumni Association of Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Tongji University, East China Normal University, Shanghai Foreign Studies University, and Shanghai University, has recently been among Chinese overseas Chinese and French-Chinese friends traveling in France. Initiated an initiative calling for donations of medical supplies to the French frontiers for epidemic prevention, and received support from the Chinese Embassy in France, Shanghai Overseas Chinese Federation and other parties.
According to the news released on the platform on the 26th, the donation of overseas Chinese funds and materials went smoothly. The entrusted receiving unit has received 130,000 yuan in donations and has successively received medical supplies such as medical masks and protective clothing. The platform also expressed support for the Paris Hospital-French Hospital Foundation to set up a temporary lounge for French medical staff.
Gong Dusheng, president of the French Alumni Association of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, said that today's Europe is like Hubei yesterday. We know exactly what we will experience and what France will need. Many of us are providing anti-epidemic supplies to French friends around them, to pharmacies, to family doctors, to hospitals, and to emergency teams.
Chinese business groups in the Greater Paris area are taking active steps to raise medical supplies for the local area. The first batch of 100,000 protective masks was donated to the Paris Regional Council. Paris Regional Council Chairman Pecres personally received the masks, expressed sincere gratitude to the Chinese businessmen, and spoke highly of their charitable act of sending charcoal in the snow.
The French community in Lyon has also begun operations. With the support and coordination of the Chinese Consulate General in Lyon, the French-Chinese Family Federation and other local overseas Chinese delegations and the Lyon Academies donated FFP2 medical treatment to the Provincial Government of Oroa and hospitals including Mulhouse, the hardest hit area in France Masks. The local overseas Chinese leader expressed the obligation and responsibility to work with French friends to fight the epidemic and overcome the epidemic.
According to reporters' observations, most overseas Chinese in France are still in a stable mood, and they are still basically in a normal state of life, sharing their life experiences in the prevention and control measures on social media. There are also overseas Chinese who hope that China can send medical experts to France to help fight the epidemic.
French Prime Minister Philip warned on the 27th that the outbreak in France will continue to worsen, and the Greater Paris area will face a more severe epidemic. Overseas Chinese in France are about to face a more difficult epidemic. Unity and rationality in fighting the epidemic and supporting the French war epidemic are still the common consensus and common aspiration of overseas Chinese in France. (Finish)