Switzerland, as a small country in Europe, is also very small, with a population of only 8.5 million, and very poor in mineral resources. It is located in most of the mountainous areas, the scenery is very beautiful, fresh air. It is such a small country in the hinterland of Europe, but in the economy is very developed, financial assets custody is its strong point, that stems from the consistent implementation of their country's policy of neutrality, so that his banking industry in the world are very famous. It is no exaggeration to say that the handmade watch industry and the banking industry are the two pillars supporting the country, and currently Switzerland is also actively developing tourism, hoping to become the country's third pillar economy.
This year's tourism development in Switzerland is very good momentum, although Switzerland's food choices are not a lot, but can see such beautiful scenery, no haze blue sky, that is the reason why a lot of tourists tend to rush to it. Because of this, in fact, the Swiss people do not have the habit of wearing masks, the whole of Europe people are not very accustomed to this matter of masks. Switzerland relies on imports for almost all of its other resources, especially with Germany, so if you need medical supplies, they are imported from Germany. And Germany's own medical consumables are purchased from Far Eastern countries, especially from China.Generally it's Germany that will purchase a large amount of medical consumables from China, and then smaller countries like Switzerland will buy a portion of them from Germany and ship them back home, since they don't need a lot of consumables, so only a A portion would be fine. It's because of this that in the case of a premise like the new crown pneumonia that requires a lot of hard currency for masks, Germany would definitely meet its domestic demand before considering exporting, but obviously at the moment Germany's domestic demand for masks is already oversupplied, so it's simply not possible to re-export to Switzerland.
And this time Germany intercepted the shipment to Switzerland, loaded with 240,000 masks of the big trucks, this move so that the original shortage of masks of Switzerland is quite dissatisfied, the two countries therefore friction. The masks were ordered directly from China because Switzerland's health care workers no longer have enough masks, and they are now changing their masks only once every eight hours, which actually increases the risk of infection.
The good thing is that China is starting to reach out to European countries, and this time China sent a lot of medics to Italy with a lot of medical consumables to support them, and in the near future, Switzerland will be able to get support and supplies as well.