KATHMANDU: Nepal Chamber of Commerce (NCC) has donated 50,000 face masks to the government at a time when the country is running out of surgical items.

Deepak Malhotra NCC handed over the face masks manufactured by the NCC to the government on Wednesday.

Earlier, it had pledged to manufacture 50,000 face masks on a daily basis and provide them to the government.

The NCC said it is distributing face masks in various districts on Thursday, too.