The air bridge between China and France is finally set up. A delivery of 5.5 million masks arrived in mainland France on Sunday March 29. This coordination between the two countries, both affected by the coronavirus, is part of Edouard Philippe's plan. The Prime Minister announced on Saturday that the government had ordered "more than a billion" masks to try to stop the epidemic.
"We had to organize this logistics"
Asked by BFM TV on Monday, Bruno Retailleau recalls that he keeps demanding the organization of such an airlift. "This is the one I asked the Prime Minister last week for topical questions , " said the chairman of the LR group in the Senate. "I had noticed for the orders that we had made for the Vendée, for the Pays de la Loire region, that there was a blockage, that it was therefore necessary to organize this logistics" , he explained . Bruno Retailleau wants to "thank the government" for "having heard" the senators LR.
The president of the group Les Républicains had challenged the government on March 19 in the Senate. "Either you give us the real figures, department by department, and you tell us: 'No possumus, the state is out of date'. In this case, the communities, regions and departments will manage the situation. For my part, I contacted two companies this evening, one of which, which has a unit in China, can produce 400,000 masks per day, while the other is also able to import them. The situation cannot go on! ", He had warned.
Almost a week later, on March 25, Edouard Philippe had explained himself to the Senate. “We have planned cargo planes that will go to China to look for masks. They are planned, they are chartered, we can evoke the image of the airlift. In fact, that's what's going to happen, ” he said.
