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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea 11 May 2020 "The huge quantities promised have not arrived". In this way Federfarma denounces that in almost all pharmacies where surgical masks have been delivered at a discounted price, for example in Rome, they are already finished. The masks at 50 cents each, however, have not yet been delivered to other large cities such as Milan and Turin. In fact, there is still a deadlock on the lack of masks.

"Pharmacists are available for sale, but the huge quantities promised, so that the latter were available in pharmacies, unfortunately have not arrived. We are back and forth on this." To say it is Marco Cossolo , president of Federfarma.

"In addition to the masks, there is a huge shortage of gloves and alcohol to disinfect . They are nowhere to be found in Italian pharmacies. "To denounce this problem" encountered from north to south of the peninsula "is Roberto Tobia , national secretary of Federfarma.

Furthermore, the other question is that" the price of latex or nitrile gloves has tripled or quadrupled in the last months after the Covid-19 emergency. "According to Tobia, the price increase" derives from the very high purchase cost paid by the pharmacy to suppliers, due to the fact that the raw materials have increased, the demand has multiplied by a thousand and the warehouse stocks are now over. "  Antonello Mirone , president of Federfarma Servizi, the National Association of Distributors of Medicines and PPE, has

increased the dose ." The only ones we are distributing are those three million from the Civil Protection and by tomorrow they will already be finished against a requirement of 10 million per day . We are overwhelmed by requests and unfortunately there are several million masks blocked and seized during checks, often for bureaucratic obstacles: we should eliminate this short circuit. " At the start of purchase notice 5 million swabs The commissioner for the emergency Domenico Arcuri published the call for tenders for the acquisition of 5 million kits for the diagnosis of Coronavirus. The "Request for offer for the Sars-Cov-2 molecular test" started today and will end on May 18. The goal is to acquire the "maximum quantity of kits available, including reagents and all the tools necessary for carrying out molecular tests on respiratory tract pads for the molecular research of SARS-CoV-2".