Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Armin Laschet speaks to the media as he visits the production facility of Innovatec Microfibre Technology, amid the on-going Covid-19 pandemic, in Troisdorf, Germany, 20 November 2020. The occasion was the commissioning of the first of three new lines for the production of meltblown nonwovens. Meltblown is the heart of every medical protective mask and is urgently needed in the current corona crisis worldwide for the production of surgical and FFP masks. Countries around the world are taking increased measures to stem the widespread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the COVID-19 disease.