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China Jo-Jo Drugstores Steps in to Help Combat the 2019 Novel Coronavirus
HANGZHOU, China, Feb. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- China Jo-Jo Drugstores, Inc. (NASDAQ: CJJD) ("Jo-Jo Drugstores" or the "Company"), a leading online and offline
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[{"type":"text","content":"HANGZHOU, China, Feb. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- China Jo-Jo Drugstores, Inc. (NASDAQ: CJJD) (\"Jo-Jo Drugstores\" or the \"Company\"), a leading online and offline retailer and wholesale distributor of pharmaceutical and other healthcare products and a provider of healthcare services in China, today announced that the Company has pledged to provide assistance to those affected by the contagious virus and fight against the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, or coronavirus[1] outbreak in Hangzhou, China, where the Company is headquartered.\nTo stabilize the medical supply in the market and protect people's safety in Hangzhou, the Company has intensified its efforts to help control the spread of the coronavirus in several perspectives including:\nissuing an initiative (the \"Initiative\") with other local major pharmacy chain stores and medical association to the public, promising and encouraging to run business with honesty and integrity, and to allocate medical supplies rationally in reaction to the sell-out of multiple medicines resulting from people's fear posed by the virus outbreak. establishing the \"24-hour Coronavirus Emergency Team\" and formulating the \"Wuhan Pneumonia Emergency Plan\" to ensure the implementation of the coronavirus prevention and control work. entering into emergency work status and contacting over 1,200 domestic and foreign vendors to allocate medical supplies to stabilize the market and to resist the spread of coronavirus. setting up a coronavirus channel on the Company's online hospital platform to provide medical consultation services and to provide customers with a 24-hour service hotline. popularizing news and information of coronavirus through various social media platforms to teach people methods to defend against the virus and to shore up the hope to reduce their fears of the virus diffusion.Mr. Lei Liu, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Jo-Jo Drugstores, commented, \"We are paying close attention to the situation and development of the coronavirus. We issued the Initiative in the first time with Hangzhou Pharmaceutical Industry Association and nine local influential pharmacy chain companies, representing an associated business network covering more than 1,000 pharmacies, accounting for about 70% of the total number of pharmacies in Hangzhou. So far, we have assembled more than 200,000 protective mas...