 Every day, from city to city, from country to country, the new cases of Coronavirus are increasing drastically. As of 28 March 2020, There are already more than 650,000 confirmed cases with more than 30,000 deaths around the world according to worldometer. And there are not enough surgical masks, for patients, for people who want to protect themselves, but in particular for the health workers like doctors and nurses who have to be exposed to people infected for hours on end.  They need In Hongkong, a city of 7 million which was hit hard 17 years ago by SARS, almost all Hongkongese wear face masks when they go out after the outbreak of Covid-19, which means 200 million surgical masks per month.  The Italian doctors with courage In Italy, the country most affected by the pandemic besides China, many health workers have been forced to wear their mask for up to 12 hours, exposing them to the danger of being infected. In Spain, the chemical and automobile manufacturers have needed to leave their masks for the health workers. In France, the minister of Solidarity and Health Ministry for distribution Olivier Veran said 30 million masks would last only three days for the medical personnel. In the United States, many doctors, nurses and first responders have had to spray their masks with bleach at the end of each day and hanging them up at home to dry to use for another day, and some medical professionals urged the public online to donate whatever they’ve stockpiled to local health care facilities. When a small piece of material usually not even noticed by most of us become a scarcity, what is happening around the world?  Amancio Ortega, founder Inditex, mother company of Zara Someone give Amancio Ortega, the man who created Zara, the largest clothing retailing chain in the world promised to provide 300,000 facial masks per week to the health workers through Spain. Chinese business man, the founder of Alibaba Jack Ma donated more than 1 million face masks to Russia Someone made themIn Spain, in Alicante province, a group of aparadoras – women who stitch shoes in their own homes, have sewed thousands of facial mask for their local hospital. In a small Murcian town named Yecla famous for furniture production, more than 30 companies joined together to repurpose their factories as face mask makers. The nuns from Santa Clara Convent in Mallorca have sewn more than 1,200 face masks for the health workers on the island.  Their sisters of different orders and different country are doing the same: The Dominican nuns at Our Lady of the Rosary Monastery in New Jersey have been sewing face masks for their local hospital. Someone sell In 16th arrondissement of Paris, a man possessing more than 23,000 face masks was arrested as he intended to sell those masks, which has been forbidden by French Goverment soon after the outbreak of Covid-19. In Malaga Spain, a doctor was suspected of stealing 300 face mask while working and is now being investigated.  Comments are closed.
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