Coronavirus: Sharp to use TV factory to make surgical masks

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Japan, where face masks were already popular, has been struggling with shortagesJapanese electronics giant Sharp is to use a TV factory to make surgical masks amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Sharp's high-end clean rooms in Japan will turn out 150,000 masks a day within weeks, Japanese media report, as domestic supplies have been exhausted.
But the type of surgical masks being made are not proven to protect against infection.
The panic-buying of masks is hitting global supply - prompting the US surgeon general to appeal to people to stop buying them.
Surgeon General Jerome Adams tweeted.