Precious delivery, these days. Friday, April 3, the town of Le Cannet (near Cannes) received an order for 80,000 FFP1 masks from China. This rare commodity was transported in record time from Shanghai, thanks to a collective of volunteers created in an emergency. Faced with the shortage of the mask, currently the most popular object on the planet, six French executives and leaders, including three based in China and three in France, put their skills and their address book at the service of their country. The result is as improbable as it is impressive. They allowed the delivery of 4 million masks last week and expect to send 50 to 70 million additional masks by the end of April. In all, they received orders for 110 million masks, including 20 million for a French region.
It all started on March 21. "We were bruised to see the critical state of France, and we said to ourselves that
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