Uzbekistan on Friday obtained medical provides despatched by Turkey to contribute to the nation’s fight towards the COVID-19 outbreak, in accordance to Turkey’s National Defense Ministry.
“Medical provides ready on the course of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to be used towards the COVID-19 outbreak have arrived in Uzbekistan,” the ministry stated on Twitter.
“Uzbekistan Vice Minister of Health Shakhrukh Sharakhmetov, our Tashkent Military Attache Col. Mustafa Baloglu, and Second Secretary of the Tashkent Embassy Furkan Yılmaz welcomed our plane, which delivered medical provides,” the ministry added.
Turkey has despatched medical aid to round 140 international locations to help them fight the Corona Virus pandemic.
Since it originated in China final December, over 17.three million COVID-19 circumstances have been reported worldwide, with the dying toll at almost 674,000, in accordance to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
As the fight towards the pandemic continues, Turkey has come to the forefront as a humanitarian chief whereas nonetheless sustaining its home success towards the Corona Virus. Some two-thirds of the world have requested medical provides from Turkey to fight COVID-19, and almost half of those requests have been met.
Turkey’s aid packages largely embrace medical masks, protecting overalls and gloves, in addition to disinfectants. All tools is produced at military-owned factories and at stitching workshops that produce uniforms and different clothes for the military.
According to the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Turkey has helped greater than 130 international locations worldwide through the pandemic.
