Guest of the Grand Rendez-vous on Europe 1, Bruno Retailleau, president of the group Les Républicains au Sénat, returned to the management of the health and economic crisis linked to the coronavirus in France. Asked about the management of mask stocks, Bruno Retailleau judges certain controversies "secondary", and believes that the Minister of Health has "deceived the French". 

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Where are the masks? Many caregivers who have been lacking for weeks are sorry that the mass distribution can, as of Monday, sell masks for protection against the coronavirus. At the microphone of Europe 1, Bruno Retailleau, president of the group Les Républicains au Sénat, considered that this controversy referred to "the masquerade on masks". "The real problem is that pharmacists did not have masks to sell or distribute to healthcare staff. The scandal is there. We must not try to make controversies which are completely secondary to me," he explains. he.  

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"The problem was managing the masks," he reaffirms. "And when I hear Olivier Véran say that wearing a mask cannot replace barrier measures, he is mistaken and he has deceived the French," said Bruno Retailleau on Europe 1. "We just justified that we there were no masks and that we had been misguided to predict in relation to stocks, "he said. 

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