China To The Rescue As Brussels Abandons Partners

FILE PHOTO. Medical personnel in protective suits wave hands to a patient who is discharged from the Leishenshan Hospital in Wuhan. ©China Daily via REUTERS

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Caught off guard by the European Union’s prohibition on medical exports, Serbia found help in China as it struggled to prepare for the Covid-19 outbreak, the Serbian president said, adding that it has become clear that EU solidarity is a myth.

Serbia is the latest country to impose severe restrictions on travel and public gatherings in response to the global epidemic. As President Aleksandar Vucic declared a national emergency on Sunday, he had some scalding remarks for the EU.

The crisis has proven that European solidarity, only exists ’on paper,’ Vucic said, citing the ban on the export of medical equipment and supplies imposed by EU members to non-EU countries in response to the outbreak.

‘Only China can help us in this situation,’ the Serbian leader added, saying he recently wrote a letter to China’s Xi Jinping ’asking him for help and calling him a brother.’

Serbia received five million masks from China that it couldn’t acquire in Europe and China also offered to send doctors to help tackle the disease, the president said. The country had to shop for respirators on a ‘semi-black market.’ 

Starting Monday, Serbia has shut down all teaching facilities, mobilised the military to guard sensitive sites such as hospitals, and closed the borders to everyone apart from citizens. Serbs will have to remain in quarantine after coming back or face prison terms of up to three years.

‘I say to foreigners: don’t come to Serbia, except for the Chinese who have promised to send doctors, their doctors, these are people who help us,’ Vucic said.

As of Monday, there are 55 confirmed coronavirus cases in Serbia, which has a population of seven million. Two of the patients are in serious condition. The virus has also reached other Balkan nations with the exception of Montenegro.

The health crisis has put EU cohesion to the test, as bureaucrats in Brussels and some leaders such as French President Emmanuel Macron pushed against border controls even as the epidemic spread like wildfire in Italy and Spain. On Monday, Germany reluctantly imposed checks and suspended visa-free travel on its land borders with five of its neighbours, drawing criticism from Paris.

China, where the Covid-19 epidemic broke out last year, has reported a slowdown of the spread and is rolling back the severe restrictions it imposed earlier. It is now offering its assistance and experience to countries that have trouble dealing with the disease.

Football team Wuhan Zall have cut short their pre-season training camp in Spain over coronavirus concerns, returning home to the country where the deadly infection originated.

The club’s decision to leave Spain for China, which is now seeing a gradual decrease in the number of new coronavirus infections, was met with a heavy dose of irony, with some noting that the situation in Europe must be ‘sh*t’ if Chinese footballers think it’s now safer in Wuhan. Like this story? Share it with others.

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