If there’s ever a good time to experience a toilet paper shortage, a pandemic is certainly not one of them. That’s why when Slovakia’s biggest producer of the valuable commodity began experiencing technical difficulties with a key piece of equipment, the country’s government allowed a crack technical team of British to fly directly into Žilina to help solve the issue. The problems at Metsa Tissue had forced its 200 employees to stay at home for three days, according to Slovakia’s Minister of Interior Roman Mikulec, who was in charge of arranging clearance for the foreigners to land. Metsa Tissue told the daily Pravda that there are no teams with the technical know-how to make the needed repairs in Slovakia. Mikulec said the government was aware that a number of producers in Slovakia could face similar issues and that it was willing to arrange exceptions to the quarantine to allow foreign experts to enter the country.
