(Reuters photo)ZURICH: Swiss authorities are trying to figure out what to do with a potential surplus of ventilators which they snapped up in the scramble for equipment to fight the coronavirus pandemic. That meant cantons could keep them, sell them to other countries or donate them, perhaps to developing countries, the paper said. As the toll of sick and dying from the Covid-19 respiratory disease mounted earlier this year, countries brawled for scarce supplies of ventilators used to help patients breathe. The defence ministry said of the 900 ventilators delivered by June 24, 261 were in storage at the army medical service and 639 were distributed to cantons. The government tasked the army medical service to buy supplies that cantons could not arrange as the pandemic spread.

Source: Bangkok Post July 06, 2020 13:07 UTC