Masks made against the Covid-19 (Illustration) - Nicolo Revelli-Beaumont / SIPA

In Nice, where the mayor LR Christian Estrosi promised two masks to each inhabitant before the deconfinement, the Internet reservation platform set up by the municipality, has already received more than 200,000 orders in five days, according to the municipality on Friday.

So far, "96,000 homes, or nearly 215,000 people, have already registered," said the city, which will begin distributing the masks from Tuesday. All Niçois who have requested it will be provided by May 8, the municipality insisted.

For 3 million euros

In a letter to his 350,000 people administered on April 16, Christian Estrosi indicated that he could not "conceive that deconfinement is done without masks, to protect yourself and others" and considered making this mask "compulsory in all public spaces" as soon as the age of 3 years, according to terms still to be defined.

These approved barrier masks can be worn four to six hours a day, and are washable up to ten times. Nice ordered 1.2 million of these masks manufactured by five French companies, for 3 million euros. The other municipalities of the metropolitan area of ​​Nice (around 500,000 inhabitants) will benefit from their own funding.

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Since the start of the epidemic of this new coronavirus, Nice has also already distributed 3 million surgical masks and FFP2 to liberal and hospital nursing staff, as well as to municipal agents and police officers.

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  • Coronavirus
  • Covid 19
  • Nice
  • Deconfinement
  • Christian Estrosi