Madrid begins this Wednesday the second distribution of free masks in pharmacies | Madrid

The Community of Madrid will begin this Wednesday, June 3, the second free delivery of another seven million masks in the region’s pharmacies. The material, of the type KN95 or FFP2, its equivalent in the European Union, has arrived two weeks ago in the last planes from China, as indicated in a statement by the regional government.

People from Madrid will be able to pick up the second mask throughout the month of June and until July 2, inclusive, and will only be available from those over the age of four. The Community of Madrid has stressed that the delivery of these masks “does not affect the protection needs of professionals” since there is “sufficient safety stock” in the warehouses of the Madrid Health Service network and pending delivery orders with all kinds of material “for the next, days, weeks and months”.

The KN95 masks have a duration of 48 hours in a row, so they “can be used on different occasions over several days when you are going to be surrounded by other people,” said the Community. They can be requested with the health card and the mutual members, around 600,000, who do not have a card, may receive it by presenting the supporting documentation of being registered with the mutual society.

The health company Cofares will be in charge of collecting the surplus masks first distribution, once the delivery data is purified by the DNI, since by electronic prescription a withdrawal of just over four million masks was recorded.

The Community of Madrid began on May 11 the first distribution of masks in the region’s pharmacies, which, according to the regional government, did not have the approval of the European Union, despite the fact that its labeling indicated so. The Madrid Nursing Association (AME) has asked the Madrid Provincial Prosecutor to investigate “the safety” of the masks distributed in May by the regional government to the entire population, and has warned that they will be “attentive to quality requirements ”Of the new masks that the Community will begin to distribute this Wednesday.

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