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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has handed over Ukraine a humanitarian cargo consisting of medicines, tests for coronavirus, hygiene products, personal protective equipment and devices for artificial ling ventilation, which will be transferred to Donbas, ICRC Delegation’s Press Secretary Oleksandr Vlasenko reported.

‘The shipment contains those drugs permitted to use either to identify COVID-19, or to treat complications that this virus may cause. Also, there are tests, hygiene products, and personal protective equipment (I have referred to medical masks and gloves), and of course, there are devices for artificial ventilation of lungs. Now the cargo will be sent to Donbas and there it is already distributed to the medical institutions that were identified for the treatment of people with COVID-19,” he said in an interview Interfax-Ukraine.

According to Vlasenko, personal care products will be distributed for public use.

As reported, humanitarian cargo for helping to combat COVID-19 spread from ICRC and the World Health Organization (WHO) was delivered to Ukraine early on April 2.