Was everything right when purchasing protective masks?
There are now unpleasant allegations against the Bavarian Ministry of Health.
Munich - Hardly anyone can avoid wearing a protective mask in the corona pandemic *.
As early as spring 2020, shortly after the start of the Corona crisis, the demand for masks to contain the virus increased enormously.
Now, almost a year later, the now mandatory FFP2 masks * with high protection are particularly in demand.
According to an article by
Spiegel Online
(
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), however, accusations against the Bavarian Ministry of Health
are loud when it comes to the procurement of masks
.
Apparently there were questionable deals with a Swiss mask dealer some time ago.
Corona in Bavaria: Questionable deals with mask retailers in Switzerland?
According to
Spiegel Online
, the Swiss company Emix is said to have made masks available to the state of Bavaria at high prices.
The Bavarian SPD politician Florian von Brunn found this strange - he therefore filed a criminal complaint.
Spicy about the incident: CSU celebrities like Monika Hohlmeier, the daughter of Franz Josef Strauss, and Stephan Mayer, the Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, are said to have been involved.
“According to previously unknown documents, the information provided by the Bavarian Ministry of Health on the controversial Emix deal is doubtful.
A security risk also apparently remained hidden, ”said the
Spiegel Online
article
.
What is certain is that the Swiss company sold one million protective masks to the Free State of Bavaria on March 3, 2020 at an expensive unit price of 8.90 euros.
According to the Ministry of Health, these were exclusively FFP2 masks - but apparently around 700,000 masks only met the Chinese "KN95" standard.
Corresponding certificates are also said to have been missing.
Deal with Swiss company Emix: Did Monika Hohlmeier and Melanie Huml have any influence?
According to papers, however, the delivery was much larger.
Among other things, 96,000 surgical masks were among them - at unusually high prices.
A ministry spokesman said, however, when asked that "no surgical masks had been ordered from Emix".
It was also problematic that the Emix products also included masks from the Lanxin brand.
Belgian authorities had warned against masks from the Chinese manufacturer to contain the corona virus * after tests.
In Bavaria, checks were only carried out “visually and haptically”, it said.
According to
Spiegel Online
, Monika Hohlmeier denies that she had any influence on the procurement of the masks
.
“In March 2020, Hohlmeier finally wrote to the then Bavarian Minister of Health and party friend Melanie Huml for (...) Emix.
Allegedly completely non-binding ”, it says there.
Later she also turned to Jens Spahn.
The Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs, Hubert Aiwanger, has also recently been accused of being.
He is said to have bought surgical masks that were far too expensive - from Bavaria of all places.
Explained in the video: FFP2 mask & surgical mask - these are the differences
Bavaria: Questionable deals with mask dealers?
Holetschek promises clarification
Like Hohlmeier, Melanie Huml denies any influence in favor of the Swiss company.
According to
Spiegel Online
, however, there should have been another, unknown Emix delivery to Bavaria.
Deals are said to have failed then - due to "quality deficiencies".
Huml's successor, the new Health Minister Klaus Holetschek, announced a transparent clarification of the facts in the state parliament.
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