Shanghai has provided face masks to South Korea’s government, asking that they be sent to people in Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province, which have emerged as hotbeds of COVID-19 infections in the nation. 

According to South Korea’s Consulate General in Shanghai on Thursday, a senior official of the Shanghai municipal government’s foreign affairs office visited the consulate general and delivered 500-thousand face masks, including 100-thousand medical masks. 

The consulate general plans to swiftly send the supplies to South Korea as soon as possible. 

Shanghai is the first Chinese local government to personally lend a helping hand to South Korea in combating the infectious disease.