Red Cross Chairman Chen Zhu talks to staff members on the ground in Iran on Tuesday morning. (Photo by Zou Hong/China Daily)
In response, Red Cross Chairman Chen Zhu, who is also a senior legislator, told Zhou and his teammates to make a list of the most urgently needed supplies and deliver it to the Chinese embassy in Teheran.
"Hopefully, supplies will reach you as early as Thursday, when a Mahan Air flight will depart Shanghai for Teheran," he said.
The exchanges on Tuesday showed the humanitarian group's efforts to help Iran introduce the type of containment measures that worked in China.
According to Iran's health authorities, the country added 595 new infections on Monday, bringing its total to 7,161 spread across all of Iran's 31 provinces.
