掌上春城訊2月9日，中國面向海外發行的國家英文日報《中國日報》刊發《Kunming to provide 300,000 free masks to residents》（《昆明向居民免費提供30萬個口罩》）一文，對昆明防疫工作進行了報道，全文如下：
據預防和控制新型冠狀病毒肺炎的有關部門表示，雲南省省會昆明市將向居民免費提供30萬個防護口罩，以緩解市場供應緊張局面。
昆明市副市長王冰表示，這些口罩已於週日（2月9日）下午分發給市區內的居民社區辦公室，再由社區將口罩分發給當地居民。
王冰說，將逐步提供更多免費口罩分發給市民。
副市長說，1月26日，中國春節的第二天，市政府開始組織所有當地工廠恢復生產，工人加班製造防護材料，例如口罩、酒精和消毒劑，以確保在預防和控制新冠肺炎疫情中取得良好的效果。
“我們安排了當地的服裝廠生產口罩及其他防護材料，與此同時，也增加了從泰國、越南、印度和其他東南亞國家醫療材料的海外採購。”副市長說，海外採購行之有效的原因是，由於近年來全市採取了一系列重要措施，以將昆明打造成為輻射南亞和東南亞的區域性國際中心城市。
Kunming, capital city of Southwest China's Yunnan province, will send 300,000 protective masks free of charge to residents to help ease the market supply shortage, according to the city's authorities for prevention and control of novel coronavirus pneumonia.
The face masks were distributed to residential community offices in the city proper on Sunday afternoon and community offices will hand out the masks to local residents, said Wang Bing, vice-mayor of Kunming.
He said more free masks will be supplied and handed out to locals, step by step.
On Jan 26, the second day of the Chinese Spring Festival, the city government started to organize all local plants and factories to return to production and workers have worked overtime to make defensive materials such as masks, alcohol, and disinfectants to ensure good results in the prevention and control of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus, the vice-mayor said.
"We arranged for local clothing factories to produce masks and other protective materials and in the meantime, increased overseas procurement of medical materials from Thailand, Vietnam, India and other south and southeast Asian countries," the vice-mayor said.
He said operations have been effective thanks to the important measures taken in recent years to build Kunming as a regional international radiation center city for South Asia and Southeast Asia.
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