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Riverside Mayor Rusty Bailey recently accepted 50,000 masks from the Taiwanese-American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Los Angeles.
The masks will go to the city’s Emergency Operations Center and will serve as a back-up supply in the city’s battle against COVID-19, according to a statement on the city’s website.
The donation, announced earlier this week, is part of a larger regional and national effort by the Taiwanese community to help in the COVID-19 pandemic, said Kenneth Chen, chamber president.
When the COVID-19 outbreak started last spring, the chamber in collaboration with the Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce of North America, raised $800,000 to pay for 10 million medical-grade face masks from Taiwan.
Those masks became available after the Taiwanese government ran out of room to store them and made surplus face masks available to the international community, according to the statement.
