Delighted and happy to pass on this gift: PTB donates 4,000 masks from Chinese colleagues to the City of Braunschweig
Braunschweig's Fire Department will decide where to distribute them
Press Release
02.04.2020
A sign of solidarity: The saying "Mountains and valleys do not meet, but people come together" is printed on the package filled with masks from China.
This unusual gift from China is the result of an enduring and close collaboration between PTB and the State Grid company in Wuhan. As it became apparent that Germany would also not be spared from the COVID-19 epidemic, the Chinese scientists personally committed themselves to sending a few packages of the masks that are desperately needed everywhere on their way to Germany.
"The fact that we received such a present from Wuhan, one of the worst hit COVID-19 areas, was very moving," said Dr. Jens Simon, Press Officer of PTB. "This gesture gives us courage and deepens our connection with our Chinese colleagues far beyond the scientific level". This is just as the note on the package reads: Mountains and valleys do not meet, but people come together.