Doctors and members of the Chinese Red Cross pose for a photo prior to a press conference in Rome, Friday, March 13, 2020. A charter plane carrying members of a medical team and several tons of medical supplies from China arrived in Rome late Thursday to assist Italy in fighting the coronavirus outbreak. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (Alfredo Falcone/LaPresse via AP)
March 20, 2020
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China, on virus PR offensive, sends masks and experts abroad
BEIJING (AP) — As the fight against a new virus shifts to Europe and beyond, China is supplying millions of masks and other desperately needed items to struggling governments, hoping to build political ties and defuse criticism that it allowed the disease to spread early on.