Netherlands withdraws 600,000 defective Chinese masks from hospitals:
The Netherlands withdrew 600,000 defective masks, which it had imported from China, for not meeting the quality standards.
The French News Agency quoted the Dutch Ministry of Health as saying that it "received 1.3 million protective masks on the twenty-first of this month, and distributed about 600,000 of them to health care workers.
The ministry said, in a statement, that it had "suspended the distribution of the remainder of the shipment."
Chinese fears of a second wave of corona virus outbreak due to expatriates:
A spokesman for the National Health Commission of China said that the increasing number of cases of coronavirus among people coming from outside the country raises concerns about the possibility of the country being exposed to a second wave of the spread of the virus, at a time when the transmission has almost stopped locally.
"China has already registered 693 cases coming from abroad, which means that the possibility of a new outbreak of the virus is still relatively large," said Mei Feng.
According to the commission's data, during the past seven days, China recorded 313 cases of infection coming from abroad, compared to only six domestic infections.
China recorded 45 new cases of the Coronavirus on Saturday, all of them for people coming from outside the country, with only one case.
Most of the cases coming from abroad are for Chinese returning to the country.
Five people died on Saturday, all in Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus in December.
The total number of deaths due to the virus in China is 3,300.
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