CIDCA provides Democratic Republic of the Congo with three air shipment worth of supplies to fight Ebola outbreak

On August 28, 2019, the first shipment of supplies provided by the Chinese International Development Cooperation Agency to fight the Ebola outbreak arrived in Kinshasa. According to a CIDCA publication covering, the donation of the supplies are scheduled to arrive through three air supply shipments with the second and third supply shipments arriving in two weeks (September 2019). At the handover ceremony, representatives of both the Chinese Embassy in the DRC and the DRC government were present, including charge d'affaires Tu Wentao, and Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the Ebola expert group leader and the inter-departmental committee coordinator of the DRC. BBC reported that a total of 100 tons of protective medical supplies were provided with 60 arriving in the first shipment in August, and the remaining 40 arriving before September 15, 2019.

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