Huawei Technologies donated 10,000 surgical masks, 20 infrared thermometers and 100 bottles of hand sanitiser to the Ministry of Science & Higher Education. The handover ceremony took place at the premises of the Ministry on May 14, 2020. The Chinese ICT company, to aid the country in combating the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), donated the medical materials via Tiber Zhou, CEO of Huawei Technologies Ethiopia Plc., and his deputy, Charles Ding, who presented the donation to Hirut Woldermariam (MD), minister of Science & Higher Education. The company and the Ministry have a partnership on ICT talent capacity building and IT infrastructure modernisation.