The Czech Republic is due to send 110,000 masks to Italy after a Chinese shipment of medical equipment heading to Italy to help tackle the coronavirus outbreak was confiscated by Czech authorities last week.

According to a statement by the Italian Embassy in Prague, following communication between Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Tomáš Petříček and his Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio, the Czech authorities will return the seized masks that were originally destined to arrive in Italy, witho...