The government is working for face at best thecoronavirus emergency. The shortage of masks, necessary to protect yourself from possible infections, it was resolved, as announced by the foreign minister Luigi Di Maio. Especially the social and health workers who have raised the alarm are in crisis. In fact, many are devoid of protection devices. The special emergency commissioner Dominic Arcuri announced the conversion of some factories Italian companies to meet the demand while already millions of devices are arriving from every part of the world.
Masks, factories converted for emergency
From Arcuri came a solution that it would not only meet the urgent need health care, but it would help some sectors folded by the crisis. The health emergency commissioner has initiated a extraordinary production.
It has, in fact, encouraged the industrial conversion of some Italian factories. Arcuri reiterated: "Until we are able to produce everything in Italy, they will continue to search all over the world the material we need ". The commissioner relaunched, informing that the new incentive from Cura Italia: "We've put 50 million euros available to Italian companies that want to convert or start the production of personal protective equipment. Today we produce very few, but in a few days we have over 100 companies ready to go ". He then stressed that "180 companies of the Chambers of Fashion they got together and created two supply chains to produce two million masks a day. The goal is to have a sufficient share of national production in a short time ".
Masks, military supply flights
It is, in fact, a race against time. Di Maio made it known that on Monday he landed at Malpensa on Neos flight departed from China with on-board 25 tons of sanitary material: approximately 1,5 million masks, 155 lung ventilators, 205.000 latex gloves, 1.000 diagnostic kits and the same number of protective suits. The Farnesina reports that they are employed military flights for supplies.
The premier Giuseppe Conte reported that more than 6.500 respirators have been purchased and 120 million masks will arrive this week, thanks to the tireless work done abroad. On Monday alone, 4 million masks and 125 fans were delivered. The first landed in Italy one and a half million masks that had been blocked in Egypt. And shortly after they touched the landing strip 40 thousand from India. There is also a hauler who from the heart of Europe is driving relentlessly to bring others 2 million masks.
Doctors also from Russia
Di Maio makes it known that it was the donation has also been released of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and 9 flights will arrive with others on board hundreds of thousands of masks, medical material e eight teams of doctors. Then in the week, thanks to the contract signed with Chinese factory BYD, others will come 6 million masks and from the following week 20 million every week, for a supply from over 100 million masks.
The minister said that the 200 masks were also unlocked Turkey and another 2 million masks in Brazil, including 100 pulmonary ventilators. Negotiations in progress with Ukraine, from where 600 thousand could come, and with the Poland. Di Maio also made it known that he had received a letter from the Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic, with which he assured that they will send 110 thousand masks. It is the same number of masks that had to arrive in Italy in recent days, seized by the Czech authorities. "To ours heroes in white coats say: hold on! To the countries that are helping us, I say: we will never forget you ”, the minister wrote on Twitter.
The EU calls for solidarity
The president of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen, in a video message on Twitter, he invited all the countries of the European Union to show solidarity. "We have to share protective material“, Like the masks,“ within the European Union ”to counter the coronavirus pandemic. "THE national bans on sales to other European countries are harmful. No state can produce alone what it needs. Today it is Italy that needs rapidly of large quantities of this medical material, but in a few weeks there will be other countries ”.
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