Start of rush construction for mask factory construction in 6 days Beijing February 18 6:20
With mask shortages in China, where the spread of the new coronavirus is spreading, Beijing has begun a rush to build a mask factory in just six days.
According to state-owned Xinhua News Agency, the construction of the mask factory was undertaken by a company that was involved in the construction of a hospital in Wuhan, Hubei Province, which was the most severely infected, in just 10 days. It is scheduled to be completed on the 22nd of this month, 6 days later.
The area is about 1,000 square meters, which means that 250,000 masks can be produced per day.
Local media say China needs at least 200 million masks a day as the spread of the new coronavirus spreads, but the daily production capacity is around 20 million and the lack of masks is severe. It has become.