(Bloomberg) -- China's President Xi Jinping sent his condolences to other nations for the first time since the global outbreak of the coronavirus, offering them to South Korea, Iran and Italy, the government said in three separate statements.
He later extended the condolences to the European Commission and European Council. China is willing to actively provide help for Europe to conquer the virus, Xi said.
Europe has become the epicenter of the outbreak and the world is reporting more new cases of Covid-19 each day than China did when the disease peaked in that country, the head of the World Health Organization said Friday.
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