A medical worker holds a thermometer to check a passenger’s temperature at a checkpoint as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Susong County, Anhui province, China, February 6, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese city with only eight confirmed cases of a new coronavirus has been accused of intercepting a shipment of surgical masks bound for a municipality with 400 cases, prompting outrage on social media.
Hospitals, towns and cities across China are scrambling for supplies of equipment, in particular protective masks, as t