As China needs virus masks, phone and diaper makers fill void

Beijing (AFP) Feb 13, 2020

A diaper manufacturer in eastern China was closed for the Lunar New Year holiday when it heard from officials - China needed vast amounts of masks to fight a deadly virus epidemic and factories needed to chip in. In just over two days, New Yifa Group converted a manufacturing line in Fujian province to make face masks, tapping some of its materials that would have gone into hygiene products