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After a corona outbreak in January 2021 with five deaths in a nursing home in Boostedt, Schleswig-Holstein, which may have been due to inadequate protective masks, the Kiel public prosecutor's office dropped an investigation with a surprising reason.
A letter from the authority states that the Federal Ministry of Health had announced that the masks had “complied with the test criteria of the Federal Government’s Corona Cabinet”.
This means that “no reproachable behavior can be proven to those responsible at the importer”.
However, the exonerating statement by the ministry raises questions because the masks were “Model No: ZX – 168”, which the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Health had warned about in February 2021.
At the end of 2021, Germany had even issued a Europe-wide warning;
sales in the EU have been banned.
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However, the warning was not relevant to the decision in Kiel because the procedure was not about the actual quality of the masks, but only whether the importer knew about the defect when it was imported and could therefore have violated the Medical Devices Act at the time.
The public prosecutor's office did not commission its own quality report.
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