Team arrives in Iraq to aid fight against virus spread (3)

An expert team dispatched by the Red Cross Society of China arrives in Iraq to support the Middle Eastern country's fight against COVID-19, on March 7, 2020. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Earlier, a team of five Chinese experts sent by the Red Cross Society of China arrived in Iran on February 29 to assist the work in epidemic control.

Meanwhile, 3,600 boxes of Yinhuangqingfei capsules, a TCM, donated by Hunan Anbang Pharmaceutical Co and valued at 150,000 yuan ($21,646), arrived in Teheran, Iran, on Thursday morning.

The medicine is recommended in the third edition of the plan for treating novel coronavirus patients in Hunan province.

It was donated upon the call for it from Iran's embassy in China on Tuesday, with English instructions provided, according to Hunan Daily.

Iran's embassy in China expressed gratitude on its Weibo account on Thursday for the donations from Chinese people after it issued the channels for donations on Wednesday.

A Chinese charity foundation launched a project for helping Iranian people in the fight against the epidemic, with its second shipment of goods arriving in Teheran on Thursday morning.

The Chinese embassy and Chinese companies in Iran donated 250,000 masks and 5,000 virus testing kits on February 25 and 26. Ma Yun, founder of Alibaba Group, donated 1 million masks to Iran on Friday.