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The French luxury group LVMH belonging to the Roubais billionaire Bernard Arnault has decided to offer 10 million masks in France, with a total value of five million euros.
The French group LVMH will come to the aid of the French State which is in need of masks to face the epidemic of coronavirus. ” LVMH has managed, thanks to the efficiency of its global network, to find a Chinese industrial supplier capable of delivering ten million masks to France in the coming days (seven million surgical masks and three million FFP2 masks)“, Said the group in a statement this Saturday.
“In order to secure this order in an extremely tense context and to allow production to start today, Bernard Arnault wanted LVMH to fully finance the first week of delivery, ie around five million euros”, can we also read.
Several other tens of millions of masks could arrive
“We had to find a serious supplier, have it approved by the French authorities, deal with customs questions and find carriers”, explains Marc-Antoine Jamet, general secretary of the LVMH group to the newspaper The Parisian. The device can be reiterated for at least four weeks and could bring 40 million masks.
Once the masks are perceived, Public Health France will distribute them as needed, on the territory. Last week, the LVMH group had modified its production in its Perfumes & Cosmetics branch in order to manufacture free bottles of hydroalcoholic gels which have already arrived in several French hospitals.
The hydroalcoholic gel released from the production lines of @LVMH and made available free of charge to health authorities.???? #solidarity #commitment pic.twitter.com/sozawwdTTa
– G Roux de Bézieux (@GeoffroyRDB) March 19, 2020
Bouygues will also offer 1 million masks
In addition, the Bouygues group has announced that it will supply 1 million masks to France. “In order to make its contribution to the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, the Bouygues group undertakes to offer the French State health services one million surgical masks meeting European standards”, indicates a press release from the group.
France has ordered “250 million masks”
This Saturday during a press conference, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran announced that France had ordered “250 million masks” which will be delivered ” gradually “. “When the Covid-19 appeared, there was [en France] that 117 million surgical masks and no strategic state stock in FFP2 mask “, he recognized. A low stock following a decision made in 2013.
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