China cashes in off coronavirus, selling Spain $467 million in supplies, some of them substandard
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China cashes in off coronavirus, selling Spain $467 million in supplies

In Spain, Health Minister Salvador Illa announced Wednesday that the country had bought $467 million in medical supplies from China, including 950 ventilators, 5.5 million testing kits, 11 million gloves, and more than half a billion protective face masks. In Italy, Beijing sent more than 300 Chinese intensive-care doctors to help the country, which has the second-highest number of COVID-19 cases behind China

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