Coronavirus outbreak: US sues Chinese firm over half a million ‘fake’ N95 masks

The US Justice Department has sued a Chinese company for selling nearly a half million fake and substandard N95 respirators to US buyers in April as the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps the country.In a complaint filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, the department said Guangdong-based King Year Packaging and Printing shipped three batches of purported N95 masks, needed to protect medical and other personnel from the coronavirus, to US buyers.The company falsely claimed the 495,200 masks it…

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