Apple has designed masks for hospital staff, covering the entire face, and will be able to produce one million a week from the weekend, group chief executive Tim Cook announced on Twitter on Sunday. The computer and telephone manufacturer thus joins the cohort of companies that have modified their production lines to respond to the shortage of masks.
Tim Cook explains that these masks, made of transparent plastic and which cover the entire face, were developed by the group's "product designers, engineering and packaging teams, and (suppliers)".
The production rate will be one million per week from the weekend. These masks will initially be intended for the United States. They will be produced there, as well as in China. In this message posted on Twitter, Tim Cook also said that Apple has been able to obtain 20 million surgical masks from its suppliers around the world.