Finnish filter firm swamped by Wuhan hospital orders


  • World
  • Saturday, 01 Feb 2020

FILE PHOTO: A hospital staff member in protective garments talks to a police officer at a checkpoint to the Hubei province exclusion zone at the Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, China, as the country is hit by an outbreak of a new coronavirus, February 1, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

HELSINKI (Reuters) - As soon as he heard about a new coronavirus spreading rapidly in China, Niklas Skogster said he knew that orders for his company's electronic air purifiers would rocket.

Skogster told Reuters that Espoo-based Genano has already had urgent orders to deliver 200 devices to hospitals in China's Wuhan region, which is at the centre of the outbreak.

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