A shipment of anti-SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) supplies donated by people of Chinese descent and by overseas Chinese residing in San Francisco, CA, the United States, arrived in Beijing Saturday afternoon.
The donations, the second shipment of its kind, arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport via Air China flight CA986. The transport was free of charge.
The Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau received the supplies, which consisted of 11,000 gauze masks, 7,000 exposure suits, 1,000 surgical caps, 1,000 pairs of surgical gloves, 900 pairs of surgical footwear and articles used in disinfection.
The first batch of the supplies, which arrived in Beijing on May 4 and consisted of 2,000 exposure suits, has been distributed by the bureau to front-line anti-SARS medical staff.
(Xinhua News Agency May 11, 2003)
