{"id":67461,"date":"2020-03-28T10:11:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=67461"},"modified":"2020-03-28T10:22:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:22:03","slug":"pakistan-receives-medical-supplies-donation-from-china-to-combat-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=67461","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Receives Medical Supplies Donation From China To Combat COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ISLAMABAD, Mar 28 (NNN-APP) &#8211; Nearly two tonnes of medical supplies from China were successfully handed over to Pakistan on Friday, at the Khunjerab pass in north Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region, to help the country fight COVID-19, according to the Chinese Embassy in Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The medical supplies, including ventilators, face masks, protective clothes and testing kits were donated by the government of northwest China&#8217;s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, said the embassy, adding, the total value of the supplies is 2.778 million yuan (about 391,500 U.S. dollars).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The border crossing between the two countries at Khunjerab only opens from Apr 1 to Nov 30 every year, due to extreme weather conditions. To ensure the rapid customs clearance of the medical supplies, Xinjiang temporarily opened the pass and provided a green channel to release the  medical supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The embassy said, both sides braved the cold weather to clear the roads and made good preparations for the delivery, adding that, the Chinese government is scheduled to send a medical team and provide more medical supplies to Pakistan soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the latest data, released by the health ministry of Pakistan, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country rose to 1,296 on Friday.&#8211; NNN-APP  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Mar 28 (NNN-APP) &#8211; Nearly two tonnes of medical supplies from China were successfully handed over to Pakistan on Friday, at the Khunjerab pass in north Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region, to help the country fight COVID-19, according to the Chinese Embassy in Pakistan. The medical supplies, including ventilators, face masks, protective clothes and testing kits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":67469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67461"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}