Because every country needs substances now.
According to a March 12 World Wide Web report, this time it's gloves, following last week's dispute over masks from the Germans. Recently, Switzerland purchased a shipment of medical gloves from China. Traveling to Germany, they were detained by customs at a duty-free warehouse in Hamburg. Swiss netizens protested on social media, and then the Swiss economy minister urgently called the German side. On the 10th of local time, the German side claimed that the customs officers had made a mistake in their work and had released them. In addition to the gloves and masks, Italy also cut off a shipment of disinfectant water that had just been purchased in Switzerland on the 11th. On March 4, the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs banned the export of medical supplies. On March 8, German customs detained a transport at the border containing 240,000 masks destined for Switzerland. Subsequently, the Swiss authorities urgently summoned the German ambassador to protest, which was allowed by the German side. While the protective material was a trivial matter for industrially advanced Germany, it was a fatal blow to Switzerland.
First, Switzerland's domestic de-industrialization is complete, raw materials are mainly imported,developed industrial neighboring countries Germany is undoubtedly the best choice for raw material imports. Secondly, EU countries have recently procured harmonized anti-epidemic materials and distributed them centrally, but Switzerland, as a non-EU or permanently neutral country, is at a great disadvantage. Thirdly, Switzerland is geographically surrounded by Germany, Italy and other countries and the risk of cutting off the purchased materials is high. As of 14:13 on March 12, Switzerland **** diagnosed 652 new cases of coronary pneumonia, including four deaths. For a country of only 8 million people, this is a huge blow. A state of emergency has now been declared in the southern Swiss canton of Ticino, where Swiss troops moved in on the 6th.
On March 11, local time, Geneva officially declared a ban on gatherings of more than 100 people. Public and private schools, movie theaters, ski resorts and other places in Switzerland have been temporarily closed. However, due to the shortage of medical facilities in the country, the Swiss health minister advised on March 6 that the country's citizens should take care of themselves at home in mild cases. On the other hand, the situation in neighboring Germany is not so good. German Chancellor Angela Angela Merkel said at local time on the 10th, there are 58 million people at risk of potential infection, perhaps eventually 60% -70% of Germans will be infected. The German health minister added that 60 to 70 percent of the virus that the minister infected refers to the possibility of infecting Germans before the introduction of the vaccine.