Will France manage to produce enough masks at the start of the school year? They are required in schools, businesses, public places, but also in hospitals and retirement homes, and demand will rise sharply in September.
Two sectors have been structured since April when masks were lacking. First, that of sanitary masks and FFP2. " We went from a production of 4 million per week in France in January to 10 million in April and 50 million currently," indicates the General Directorate of Enterprises in Bercy . Our goal is to reach 60 million per week at the end of September and the beginning of October . " A volume that corresponds to the needs of the health system as a whole.
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At the same time, France still continues to import it, but less than at the height of the crisis. According to Customs, which does not specify the number of units, she bought from abroad for 727 million euros of masks in April, 1.78
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