The coronavirus has caught us off guard. No matter what country you are from, and no matter how your government reacted, no one was expecting it to be this bad. While certain Asian countries are
recovering, most of Europe and South America is in quarantine. And, unfortunately, the prognosis is that a lot of countries already have urgent shipping needs of emergency relief supplies, and will require medical help in order to see this crisis through, even with increased safety measures. So, what is shipping medical equipment going to be like in the coming months and how much will it be affected by the current crisis? Well, let’s take a closer look in order to attempt to answer these complex questions .
International emergency relief shipping
There is hardly a country in the EU that has all the necessary medical equipment to easily handle coronavirus. With hope, the current measures of quarantine and limited travel should make this a long-lasting but slow outbreak, during which the current medical staff and equipment will be enough to help the ones in need. However, if any country is hit with the kind of outbreak that happened in Italy, we will see a tremendous need for medical equipment.