(Yicai Global) Jan. 23 -- Hangzhou-based e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holdings said that it has set up a special squad to cooperate with 92 producers in China, which can currently supply 46 million masks to fight against the outbreak of coranavirus-caused pneumoia, Chinanews.com reported today.

These respirator makers can churn out more 1.57 million of the prophylactic visors before the Chinese New year holiday, which will start tomorrow, and will resume full production of 16.3 million per day after the one-week break, Alibaba added.

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