China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-11 07:30 Share CLOSE A worker fills oxygen cylinders for medical use at a gas plant in Mumbai, India, on Sunday. [Photo/Agencies]
NEW DELHI/CAIRO－Anti-epidemic supplies including 100 oxygen concentrators and 40 ventilators donated by the Red Cross Society of China, or RCSC, arrived in India on Sunday, Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong said in a tweet.
The shipment by a Chinese cargo flight from China s southwestern city of Chengdu was the first batch of anti-epidemic supplies donated by the RCSC to India, he said.
Sun also said the RCSC has decided to provide $1 million in cash to the Indian Red Cross Society through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to help India fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ethnic groups step in as Myanmar’s COVID response falls apart Emily Fishbein
As Myanmar’s national COVID-19 response collapses following a February 1 military coup, one ethnic armed organisation in the country’s north has quietly vaccinated 20,000 people in areas it governs, with support from across the border in China.
The vaccines, produced by the Chinese company Sinovac Biotech, were supplied and administered with assistance from the Red Cross Society of China, a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
The KIO is one of approximately 20 ethnic armed organisations operating along Myanmar’s borders with China, Thailand and India. Several of them have run their own COVID-19 responses from early on in the pandemic.
CX Daily: Is Global Inflation About to Take Off?
Inflation /
Factories around the world
are facing headwinds from surging commodity prices, rising shipping costs and semiconductor shortages, fueling worries that global inflationary pressures are looming as major economies recover from pandemic lockdowns.
In China, factory gate prices have climbed at an accelerated pace in recent months. The
producer price index (PPI), which gauges changes in prices of goods circulated among manufacturers and mining companies, rose 4.4% year-on-year, in March, the fastest growth since July 2018. The trend further strengthened in April as prices of coal, steel, cement and glass all increased significantly.
2021-05-11 09:03 By: Xinhua
Rescuers assemble at the opening ceremony of an emergency rescue drill in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China s Fujian Province, May 10, 2021. A comprehensive emergency rescue drill hosted by the Red Cross Society of China was held in Fuzhou on Monday. A total of 13 Red Cross rescue teams from all over the country and the Donghai No.2 flying rescue service participated in the drill and systematically exercised rescue subjects like aquatic lifesaving, search and rescue, medical treatment, water supply and etc., in an effort to improve the joint rescue capability of various rescue teams at different levels. (Xinhua/Jiang Kehong)