For weeks there has been concern about Bottlenecks at Respirators huge. For fear of being infected with Covid-19, many people hoard a large number of breathing masks at home.
They are therefore online too horrendous prices offered (a dealer at Amazon sells a box with 50 masks for just under CHF 80) and also Hospitals report that breathing masks are disappearing from stock – even though, according to the Robert Koch Institute in Germany, there is insufficient evidence for healthy people that mouth-nose protection measurably reduces the risk of infection.
Support for medical staff
Very useful However, the masks are for people who are already with the Corona virus infected to have. You can other before an infection protectbecause the viruses spread from person to person through droplet infection. And: Indispensable are they for that medical personnel.
This is exactly what the Spanish textile company Inditex, which includes Zara, Bershka and Massimo Dutti, now wants under the arms: The company recently announced in a press release that it has Production sites and want to provide logistics centers to Respirators to produce.
Today, 300,000 masks are to be donated
You would get the materials yourself and them at least once a week deliver to their own production facilities. There, the brands belonging to Inditex, but also other (already established) manufacturers of masks could process the material. So far, the company has donated 10,000 face masks to Spanish hospitals. Today, Friday, they would do it again 300,000 masks want to deliver.
But the textile giant wants that medical personnel and the Patients not only support with respiratory masks: “We are currently also trying to use the medical fabrics and textiles for Hospital clothing to procure “, it says in the communication.
Not the only ones in the fashion industry
“Examining the possibility of switching some of the textile manufacturing capacity to the production of healthcare materials could be one further step towards coronavirus control, “the company said.
Inditex is thus part of a number of companies that have their resources to provide protection against corona. Just last Monday, the French luxury company LVMH communicated that in its cosmetics and perfume factories in France with immediate effect only disinfectant instead of Perfume made shall be. And that too British Fashion Council yesterday asked British designers on Instagram to help make respirators, if possible.
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