Coronavirus: Mindef sends 2,000kg of medical supplies to China to help with relief efforts

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SINGAPORE - The Republic's Ministry of Defence (Mindef) has delivered over 2,000kg of medical supplies to be distributed to Chinese military hospitals.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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SINGAPORE - The Republic's Ministry of Defence has delivered over 2,000kg of medical supplies to be distributed to Chinese military hospitals.

The post included a picture of Singapore's ambassador to China Lui Tuck Yew and Defence Attache Steven Tan handing over the contribution to People's Liberation Army General Hospital Medical Service Department deputy head Zhang Fu, in Beijing. "The fight in this outbreak is against the virus, and friends can reach out to each other in this time of need."

The assistance was to help communities severely affected by the coronavirus outbreak in China and aid efforts to contain the virus, Singapore's MFA said.This follows an earlier dispatch of humanitarian assistance by the Singapore Government to Wuhan on Scoot Flight TR5120 on Feb 8.

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Masks? I thought not enough in SG already?

Ah..3m, is it masks?

While we hv to deal with scammers, our gov just gave aid to china. D supplies they told us we have enuff.

Let's just hope they end up where they shd b ... 🤞

Err why do they need it? They reject US help then said they did not and blame them for it.. so...

And the corrupted Chinese government officials will keep most of it for themselves and their love ones.

Haven’t seen any news of this from China officials. Hopefully it won’t be like the supplies from US

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