This is stated in a statement on the website of the European Commission.
“As an immediate first reaction, member countries allocated a total of 12 tons of protective equipment already on their way to China,” the statement said.
The EC noted that the EU intends to continue to provide assistance to China in connection with the outbreak of coronavirus.
At the end of December 2019, information appeared that in Chinese Wuhan, dozens of people fell ill with an unknown form of pneumonia. It was later reported that a new type of coronavirus was the cause of the outbreak of viral pneumonia.
Various states have taken measures in connection with the appearance of the virus. For example, airports in the USA, Great Britain, Russia and several other countries began to check arriving passengers for a new type of coronavirus, some states closed the border, but 2019-nCoV continues to spread throughout the world. Infected already recorded in Russia, USA, Singapore, Vietnam, UAE, Germany, France and other countries.
According to the latest data, the number of people infected only in China has reached almost 12 thousand, and 259 people have already died.
Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, editor-in-chief of the journal “Issues of Virology” and director of the Research Institute of Virology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Dmitry Lvov in an interview with the FBA “Economics Today” noted that coronavirus is not spreading as fast as the flu virus.
More details in the material RT.