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Written by: Xiaobin Bin
2020-01-26 15:44
Last updated: 2020-01-26 15:44The outbreak of new coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan is raging, and there are rumors on the Internet that the government has mass produced masks with up to 100 million inventories. A government spokesman today (26th) clarified that the relevant information has no factual basis. The surgical masks stored by the Government Logistics Department were supplied to various government departments for daily and contingency planning. In 2019, the Logistics Department purchases an average of 1.1 million masks from the Correctional Services Department each month (that is, the monthly output of the Correctional Services Department), and the average monthly shipment is similar.
To cope with the government's contagious disease contingency plan, the Logistics Department needs to reserve 10 million masks to support the operational needs of the relevant policy bureaux and departments. In response to the recent epidemic of new coronavirus infections, in the past week, relevant departments have successively taken masks from the logistics department's inventory for use by frontline personnel.
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The government said that the Logistics Department had increased its procurement and replenished its reserves to ensure that there were sufficient masks for use by policy bureaux and departments. Regarding the useful life of the inventory of masks, according to records, the earliest production period of the current inventory is January 2019.
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