Ten weeks of mask stocks requested from companies

The state must have strategic stocks in the event of a health crisis. Companies may also have theirs in the future. The government will indeed ask companies to acquire ten weeks of mask stocks for their employees.

A way to guard against the risk of a second wave of the epidemic of Covid-19 said Wednesday the Secretary of State for the Economy, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.

📢 We are preparing for the start of the school year with a risk of re-circulation of the virus, this is why we are asking #companies to plan 10 weeks of #mask stocks, reminding them that we now have producers 🇫🇷 of textile masks with filtration guarantee. pic.twitter.com/wr2yEKelzm

“We are preparing for the start of the school year and there is a risk of re-circulation of the virus (…), and we will ask companies to plan for 10 weeks of mask stocks, with a little reminder that we now have French producers, and for surgical masks, and for masks known to the general public, that is to say made of reusable textile, "she said during a hearing by the delegation to companies of the Senate.

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“A note” in this sense must be co-signed by his colleagues in the government, the Minister of Labor Muriel Pénicaud and the Minister of Health Olivier Véran. Agnès Pannier-Runacher indicated that it would be good to privilege from now on the French companies having reconverted their production to provide masks at the height of the crisis and which now find it difficult to sell their stocks.

Before adding: "If this production had not taken place, many companies would have filed for bankruptcy. This production saved thousands of jobs and hundreds of businesses. ”

Companies are left with colossal stocks of single-use masks manufactured "without having a contract". "We are working to help, but I would say that it is still customary to manufacture by having orders," she criticized. Pointing also to the "responsibility" of local authorities, "some of which have canceled orders", putting producers of masks in difficulty.

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