国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Chinese community pooling efforts to help fight COVID-19 in U.S._时事

国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Chinese community pooling efforts to help fight COVID-19 in U.S.

NEW YORK, March 30 -- Chinese Americans and local operations of Chinese companies are making hard efforts to donate medical supplies to hospitals, police stations and local residents to ease shortage and help fight COVID-19 in the United States.

Among those donators, 115 restaurant owners from the Chinese American community across the United States have contributed over 72,000 U.S. dollars and enabled the donation of 20,000 surgical masks, 300 N95 masks, 3,550 protective coveralls and 500 pairs of gloves to multiple hospitals in New York City and one hospital in the state of New Jersey last week, said Vickie Wang on Sunday, who has direct knowledge of the matter.

Most of the donators are restaurant owners from Florida, New York, New Jersey and other states, according to records from Wang, who operates a restaurant service-related company in the Chinatown area of Lower Manhattan.

Wang told Xinhua that the donation team bought most of the protective gears from a local supplier and more than ten hospitals have received donations including Elmhurst Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, NYU Langone Health, Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Staten Island University Hospital and others.

The donations were presented to relevant hospitals by volunteers, led by Michelle Zhou, according to Wang.

The volunteers from the Chinese community took great risks and sent the donations directly to the hospitals.

"We would donate the first batch of 500 surgical masks to Bendheim Integrative Medicine Center with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Monday," said Aaron Zhu, general manager of Zhongke Health International (New York) LLC, which sells a series of modernized Chinese herbal products as dietary supplement in the United States.