(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) AU Chairman: Purchasing 30 million new Coronary Pneumonia Test Kits from China every month
China News Service, Johannesburg, June 1st (Reporter Wang Xi) South African President Ramaphosa, the chairman of the rotating presidency of the African Union, confirmed in a virtual interview on the 31st that the African continent will purchase 30 million sets of laboratory tests from China every month. Kits, 10,000 ventilators and 80 million masks to fight the new coronary pneumonia epidemic.
Ramaphosa said that in order to combat the new coronary pneumonia, African countries have now established a unified procurement platform, which will be officially launched next week. At that time, Chinese suppliers will provide the African continent with 30 million test kits, 10,000 ventilators and 80 million masks every month through this platform, which will greatly alleviate the current shortage of medical supplies on the African continent. Countries will benefit from it.
At the same time, the operation of the platform will also bring African airlines such as South African Airways, Ethiopian Airlines and Kenya Airways in deep crisis to life, and two African cities, Johannesburg and Addis Ababa, will also become the continent ’s resistance Transit station for epidemic materials.
On May 1, South Africa formally lowered the blockade level against the new coronary pneumonia epidemic from the most severe fifth level to the fourth level, which means that some commercial stores have been able to reopen. The picture shows that in a bookstore in Johannesburg, the "fully armed" staff greeted the bookstore to reopen, they have been "unemployed" for nearly 2 months. China News Agency reporter Wang Xishe
As of press time, the total number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the African continent was 1,486 and deaths were 4,068. Among them, South Africa, as the African country with the most severe epidemic situation, has now passed the 30,000-person mark.
From June 1, South Africa's "blockade order" against the new coronary pneumonia epidemic will be relaxed from level 4 to level 3, and about 8 million South Africans will return to work. In this regard, Ramaphosa admits that the time has come to open the economy, but the three-level "blockade order" does bring the risk of epidemic transmission. However, the South African government has taken a series of measures according to the recommendations of scientists, such as taking a gradual lift Maintaining social distance and mandatory wearing of masks are used to effectively reduce the infection rate. "The South African government's measures are completely guided by science," he said. (Finish)