Chinese firms go full throttle to manufacture masks

Getting creative: A man wearing a plastic water bottle with a cutout to cover his face in Hong Kong. — AFP

NANCHANG: Though many factories across China remain empty amid mass quarantine campaigns to curb the novel coronavirus from spreading, companies that produce masks are going all out to churn out much-needed supplies.

The latest figure shows the novel coronavirus has infected 11,791 people.

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