China will provide urgent Anti-COVID Assistance

[Betel nut selling banned in the city] The Government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) has stepped in to help Solomon Islands in the fight to contain the spread of community transmission of the corona virus following urgent discussions with the Honiara government on the weekend. The first shipment of urgent medical supplies will arrive next week by a Chinese government cargo flight, the Chinese Embassy in Honiara announced in a press statement issued overnight. The first shipment of urgent assistance from China includes: – Humanitarian funding of USD $320,000 (SBD $2,560,000); – 50,000 doses of SinoPharm vaccines; -…