Countries’ procurement agents are fighting each other in China for access to the protective equipment that must play a key role in stemming the spread of the novel coronavirus, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said. “You hear stories of people fighting in the truest sense of the word over these masks in China,” he told reporters on Friday during a visit to a logistics company that is acting for the German government. Germany’s mix of lockdown measures and aggressive testing for the novel coronavirus has so far been successful in slowing the spread of the disease, with each patient only infecting one other on average in recent days.
