FILE PHOTO: Analiese Zaleski sews hospital masks, as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, on day one of turning the Detroit Sewn facility into a production facility for hospital masks in Pontiac, Michigan, U.S., March 23, 2020. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook -
ZURICH (Reuters) - Spiez Lab, a government-run institute in the Swiss mountains, was set up to protect the nation from nuclear, biological and chemical threats. "For a world without weapons of mass destruction," runs its slogan.
It is now fighting another global menace - the coronavirus - by providing face masks, the demand for which is growing faster than the disease they're meant to fend off. Hospitals treating COVID-19, the pandemic caused by the virus, can need up to nine times the protective equipment they do when dealing with normal flu, according to the American Hospital Association.
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