• Mercadona's boss "There is a crisis for 2022. You have to breathe, but also eat"

The Mercadona supermarket chain has

lowered the price of its

non-reusable hygienic

masks

from its Deliplus brand and has left

the pack of 10 units

at

three euros

.

These masks have been available in the perfumery section of the Valencian chain since mid-2020 in its more than 1,600 stores.

Yesterday, the Government spokesperson and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, said that the Executive is working on the

revision of the reference price of

masks to set one "accessible" for all citizens, either through a reduction of the VAT or lowering the maximum price that was set at the beginning of the pandemic.

Then, a maximum price of 96 cents was set in parallel to the exemption of surgical procedures in hospitals.

The Community of Madrid asked the Government yesterday to lower the VAT from 21% to 4%.

Reduced IVa in masks

Mercadona's measure has overlapped with the request this week from the

Organization of Consumers and Users

(OCU) requesting

free masks for vulnerable families

and a

super-reduced VAT

.

In a press release, he warned that "10% of families have serious difficulties to make ends meet by meeting basic needs."

A situation that "prevents them from facing the extraordinary cost of purchasing masks frequently enough, which puts their filtering efficiency at risk and, therefore, the necessary prevention of the spread of the virus.

The continued use of masks, the organization has warned, "involves an additional monthly cost for families of between 24 and 105 euros, depending on the type of model they use": 24 euros with reusable masks (four masks at six euros per unit) , 60 euros with non-reusable hygienic masks (120 masks at 0.50 cents / unit), and 105 euros, at least, if one of the members belongs to a risk group (90 hygienic at 0.50 cents / unit, plus 30 FFP2 at two euros / unit).

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