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Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Before the pandemic, China’s output of oxygen concentrators was increasing steadily, growing from around 200,000 in 2014 to around 1.5 million in 2019 to meet rising domestic demand. Then came the coronavirus. China’s control of the virus means it has little need for additional supplies of concentrators, which filter oxygen from the air and can help patients who have difficulty breathing improve their oxygen saturation levels. Instead, China’s seeing exports “ rise sharply ,” according to Chinese consultancy Qianzhan Industry Institute in a report published this month, as the coronavirus continues to ravage the...
