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.
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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