Coronavirus or COVID-19 is now spreading like wildfire around the world. This resulted in a lack or shortage of proper medical equipment like face masks that were mainly used to prevent getting the viral disease. Luckily, one of the leading Japanese Electronics company Sharp now announces that they will help on the campaign against COVID-19 by producing their own version of face masks!
Sharp TV giant now changes course, sells face mask instead?
The face mask is now the most in-demand medical supply that everyone in the world urgently needs amid COVID-19 spread. Due to this, Sharp TV company has finalized the decision to make one of their biggest factories as a face mask manufacturing building-- producing up to 150,000 face masks a day!
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According to a Japanese local report, Sharp will be the very first company outside the health industry to produce and sell face masks in the market soon. Starting in mid-March, the production will soon begin and expected to reach the markets by the end of this month to help ease the shortage of face masks around the world.
As the company begins their production, it announced that it plans to produce a higher number of face masks reaching up to half a million face masks a day and will be made on their 'clean rooms' that was originally designed for making liquid-crystal display panels.
Sharp went bankrupt; Now sells face masks against Coronavirus... Is this true?
Reports saying that Sharp is now on the bankruptcy stage since the company will soon sell face masks in the market are all false. In fact, according to Forbes, Sharp is still part of the top 500 best companies in the world, being the best employers for Diversity in 2019.
Aside from that, the action of Sharp to help against COVID-19 is not at all surprising since their parent company Foxconn Technology Group also created their mask, producing a line that planned to build two million masks per day at the end of Feb.
It all boils down to business for Japanese companies
Now that Sharp has now announced their face masks line soon in the market, it is now expected for other Japanese companies to follow the same pattern. The Japanese government insists on businesses and industries to help them produce a higher number of necessary medical supplies.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe already said that their country would urgently produce face masks reaching 600 million supply a day as the country recently has reported six deaths and over 250 positive cases of the viral disease.
Since Sharp accepted the responsibility of creating anti-COVID-19 face masks, the company is expected to receive 30 million yen or over $250,000 as a subsidy for their efforts.
