The Ningxia Hui autonomous region transported a batch of protective medical materials to three countries on Friday to help curtail the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia, Japan and Romania.
About 68,000 face masks, including 3,000 N95 surgical-grade masks, and 1,500 surgical gowns were donated by the regional government of Ningxia to the Russian state of Tula oblast, Japan's Shimane prefecture and Romania's Harghita county, officials said on Friday.