Germany blocked masks from Switzerland, and France cut off orders from the UK.
Europe has become another new active area of ????the global new coronavirus epidemic, and competition for protective equipment has also begun. It turns out that France had cut off orders for masks from the UK just days before. Last week, Swiss media broke the news that hundreds of thousands of masks purchased by the country were intercepted by German customs, and the diplomatic dispute between the two countries also surprised the outside world. A report published by French News Europe on the 6th mentioned that France had suspended the British mask order. The report reads: The battle for protective equipment triggered by the new coronavirus outbreak has intensified, with France forcing the country's mask manufacturers to cancel a large order from the UK. It was reported that earlier this year, the British National Health System (NHS) ordered millions of masks from countries near Lyon, France, due to the threat of the new coronavirus.
The order changed early this week, when France ordered the withdrawal of all protective masks produced in the country in the face of a global shortage. French President Macron announced on the 3rd of this month that in response to the epidemic of the new coronavirus, France is collecting all stocks and newly produced protective masks to distribute to medical staff and French people infected with the new coronavirus. Business credit and revenue, on the one hand, and government impositions on the other, have made things difficult for the French mask maker. In this case, Valmy SAS has also increased its production, producing 10 times more masks than usual. We have to find solutions, find people, integrate them, train them so they can go into production, and get the new team moving forward.
The director of the General Directorate of Health of the French Ministry of Health said on the 10th that in the past 24 hours, France confirmed 372 new cases of new coronary pneumonia, and the total number of cases nationwide rose to 1,784. At a time when European countries are paying attention to epidemic prevention, compared with Germany's detention of Swiss masks, France seems to have not received multimedia reports about the order to block the UK. However, discussions on social media are always inevitable.