“Today is masked. The Ministry of Industry and Trade put into circulation a large number of masks, they come in a total of more than 30 million, ”RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Earlier, the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Igor Artemyev, announced the persistence of a shortage of medical masks in several regions of Russia.

March 24 it was reported that in the Nizhny Novgorod region will increase the production of disinfectants and medical masks.