“We additionally delivered 37 million masks from China over the week. We got it from colleagues, it was not easy, but they gave us priority, we are priority as a country. Another 55 million units have been contracted, ”Manturov said on the air of the Youtube channel Solovyov LIVE.
According to him, another 3 million medical masks will be imported from Russia to China within a week.
As the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade noted, this will provide a supply of personal protective equipment for medical facilities, services and departments.
In addition, it is expected that in mid-April Russia will produce up to 4 million protective gauze masks per day.
Earlier, more than 1 million masks were delivered to Russia, as well as 200 thousand test systems for the detection of coronavirus from businessman Jack Ma.