The situation of "gap cover" exists all over the world. On February 7 local time, the World Health Organization (who) held a press conference on the new crown pneumonia epidemic and pointed out that the outbreak of the epidemic caused a long-term shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as masks and respirators worldwide.
"Demand is 100 times higher than normal and prices are 20 times higher," said who director general Tan Desai
However, for Chinese netizens, the good news is that your mask may be on the way!
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Today (February 8), the official microblog of the Ministry of industry and information technology, the "industry and information microblog", forwarded an interview with Liu Jingzhen, chairman of China Pharmaceutical Group, and said that, in fact, China's mask production speed is only 0.5 seconds per piece. However, a standard process of disinfection analysis needs 7 to half days.
"That is to say, the batch of masks produced overtime on the first day of the new year may just be on the market today!"
A wave of masks on the way
"Industrial information micro report" pointed out that the medical mask is sterilized with ethylene oxide. After sterilization, there will be ethylene oxide residue on the mask, which not only stimulates the respiratory tract, but also carcinogens. The residual ethylene oxide must be released through analytical method to meet the safety content standard. Only after passing the test can it be delivered to the market.
"In this way, there will be a large number of masks on the market in the near future."
According to media reports, on February 2, Huang Libin, spokesman of the Ministry of industry and information technology and director of the operation and monitoring Coordination Bureau, said that China's mask production capacity is about 20 million pieces per day, and the current capacity recovery rate is more than 60%. For the very scarce masks and other materials, the Ministry of industry and information technology is fully mobilizing enterprises to overcome the difficulties of Spring Festival holidays and the spread of the epidemic, and resume production as soon as possible.
On February 5, Hao Fuqing, deputy director of the social development department of the national development and Reform Commission, introduced at the press conference of the joint defense and joint control mechanism of the State Council that as of February 3, the output of masks in 22 key provinces had reached 14.806 million, an increase of 3.1% on a month on month basis, the capacity utilization rate reached 67%, and the month on month increase of 2%. Among them, the most urgent N95 masks have reached 116000, an increase of 48% month on month. The daily output of other medical masks was 9.98 million, up 36% month on month.
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