Di Maio, masks and respirators from China

(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 10 - Beijing is willing to supply Italy with a thousand lung fans, in addition to two million masks, 100 thousand of which are high-tech, 20 protective militaries and 50 thousand swabs for coronavirus tests. This is what is learned at the end of the telephone conversation between the Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio and his Chinese counterpart WangYi, who has ensured that in these hours Beijing has been given a clear indication to their companies to export 2 million ordinary medical masks to the Italy for the coronavirus emergency.
On the Chinese side, the guarantee has arrived to Di Maio that Italian orders will be prioritized among the Chinese companies for the purchase of lung ventilators, a request that today is not only Italian but of many other European countries.