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Covid-19: Swiss army reportedly duped into buying millions of low quality masks

The company Emix is alleged to have delivered eight million poor-quality sanitary masks to the army during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to German-language newspaper SonntagsZeitung.


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The Swiss government mobilised thousands of soliders to help at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Keystone / Jean-christophe Bott

In addition, manufacturing certificates were allegedly falsified.

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The Spiez laboratory of the Federal Office for Civil Protection tested the masks and found them to have “poor performance”.

According to the manufacturer, Sword, the masks did not come from its factory. Emix told the newspaper it rejects the accusations.

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