The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has begun delivering cloth masks, which were procured by the government as a countermeasure against the new coronavirus but remained in stock, to approximately 330,000 individuals and nursing care facilities who wished to distribute them.
It is said that the inventory will be cleared, but the storage cost up to last month has reached about 960 million yen.
As a countermeasure against the new coronavirus, the government has procured about 287 million cloth masks, but as of the end of last month, more than 78 million were left undistributed.
The policy was shown to distribute the inventory to those who wish to use it effectively and then dispose of it. It means that it was sent.
In some cases, they wanted to use it for cleaning and growing vegetables, so the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare limited the distribution destinations to those used as masks for infection control in Japan, and about 330,000 cases, totaling 71 million. We started shipping the sheets from one day.
Approximately 7.3 million pieces, such as defective products and products whose quality cannot be confirmed, will be outsourced to a processing company to be recycled as solid fuel.
This will eliminate the mask inventory, but the storage cost up to last month was about 960 million yen, the delivery cost this time was about 350 million yen, and from the applicant. It means that it costs about 140 million yen to operate the call center to respond to inquiries.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said, "The Board of Audit has also pointed out that we should try to reduce storage costs and make effective use of them. We would like to make effective use of them as much as possible."