The precious cargo arrived early Monday morning. An airplane from China carrying eleven million masks landed at Nantes airport around 7am as part of the "airlift" between China and France to deal with the Covid-19 epidemic, he said. we learned from the prefecture. "An Antonov with eleven million masks landed around 7 am" at Nantes airport, where a dozen semi-trailers were present to transport them, said the prefecture of Loire-Atlantique.
This day in #Nantes, a little special air traffic! Presence of an Antonov 124 to deliver us a few million masks, then passage of a French Military A400M as well as a Mirage2000 of operational permanence ... noise in the sky # avgeeks # A400M # AN124 #AMP pic.twitter .com / CgCb4gEDvs
- arnaud masson (@aeroarnaud) April 13, 2020“We have just received 1.2 million surgical masks intended for our hospitals and health centers. The mobilization of the region alongside our health personnel continues, ”wrote the president of the Pays de la Loire region Christelle Morance (LR) on Twitter.
The region has ordered a total of one million FFP1 masks and 500,000 FFP2 masks, some of which had already arrived last week, we learned from its press service. To meet needs, France has ordered nearly two billion masks from China, according to Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
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