Prepared for shipping to government stock mask release March 12 17:08
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The government is urgently preparing for shipping, with plans to release more than 2.5 million masks from its stockpile due to serious mask shortages at medical institutions and nursing homes.
The government has decided to release more than 2.5 million masks, which are stored by each ministry and agency in case of a disaster, excluding the minimum required to continue operations. .
In a warehouse of a logistics company in Tokyo, masks stocked by ministries are being collected at a rapid pace, and masks were brought in from the Ministry of Defense on the 12th.
Members of the SDF were loading large cardboard boxes containing 2,000 masks one after another from the truck bed.
These masks will be distributed throughout the prefecture to places of high need, such as medical institutions and nursing care facilities nationwide, and the government will begin shipping as early as this weekend.
The government has explained that the supply of more than 600 million masks has been secured this month by increasing production and increasing imports by manufacturers, but as masks continue to be scarce, measures to support production increases The supply is rushed through such as.