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German army loses 6 million anti-coronavirus face masks in Kenya

A trader wears a protective facemask as Nairobi County health workers fumigate City Market on March 24, 2020. A German shipment of 6 million facemasks on transit through Kenya is missing. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

A German army shipment of six million face masks needed to protect against the novel coronavirus has vanished in Kenya, the defence ministry in Berlin confirmed Tuesday.

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