Fate of Chinese Medical Mission Stirs Controversy in Algeria
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/2207201/fate-chinese-medical-mission-stirs-controversy-algeriaChatted via Messenger with a member from Algeria, in North Africa, sharing boundary in the west to northwest with Morocco.
At present, the number of cases stands at 511, and 31 deaths.
The following is an edited version of translation using Google translate from French to English.
The schools and the universities are closed, but the factories are open. Women who have children and people who have chronic disease do not go to work.
At the beginning, people stocked up on food, because they were all afraid.
Imagine even people who work in the pharmacy and the hospital do not have masks and gloves! Our Executive Council of Béjaïa signed an agreement with private companies at Béjaïa Province to manufacture the masks.
The government helps people in other continent but not its own.
We are grateful that China help us by sending a team of doctors and equipment to the military hospital in Algiers, to treat those diagnosed with the disease.
We have one institute, Pasteur Institute, in Algiers which oversees 45 provinces, and the test results take a long time to return (it uses PCR as a diagnostic mean).
The majority of coronavirus cases are Imported from Europe. It is too late to close the border to stop the spreading.
Thank you.
