China expresses welcome and appreciation to the "sincere and friendly understanding, support and help from the international community," a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Wednesday.
Hua Chunying said as of Wednesday noon, 21 countries as well as the UN's children agency UNICEF had donated epidemic control materials to China.
The 21 countries are: South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Germany, the UK, France, Italy, Hungary, Belarus, Turkey, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Egypt, Australia, New Zealand, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Other nations have also expressed willingness to provide support and assistance. Individuals in many countries have also provided various forms of assistance to China in its fight against the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Hua said China will continue to share information about the outbreak in an open, transparent and responsible manner and strengthen cooperation with the international community, not only to protect Chinese people's lives and health, but also to make efforts and contributions to maintaining global and regional public health security.
