Global Epidemic Continues To Escalate, And Many Other Countries Are Short Of Masks And Other Anti Epidemic Materials.

Recently, WHO director general Tan Desai said at a news conference that the new coronavirus was close to causing the global pandemic, but the outbreak could be controlled in various countries by adopting containment and mitigation measures.

With the continuous spread of the global epidemic, masks and other anti epidemic materials have been out of stock around the world. There are many shortages of epidemic prevention materials and panic buying in many countries with serious epidemic situation. In view of this situation, countries around the world have begun to control medical supplies such as respirators, so as to ensure the supply of their materials.

Us: the US health minister has talked about the problem of masks in the United States. There have been 270 million gaps in American masks. If the new crown virus breaks out in the US, the US health system will need about 3 billion 500 million masks, and about 12 million N95 masks and 30 million surgical masks in the US strategic national reserve. The current total masks inventory is only 1.2% of the demand during the outbreak. US Vice President Burns said at the new crown pneumonia epidemic conference 4, that ordinary Americans do not need to go out to buy masks, and the government has 40 million surgical masks. At the same time, he said that the United States has signed a contract with 3M, which will produce more than 35 million masks per month and will cooperate with other manufacturers.

Japan: under normal circumstances, the annual demand for masks in Japan is 5 billion 500 million, and 70% comes from overseas OEM, including 990 million of medical masks, accounting for 18%. The demand for respirators has surged to about 5 times as a result of the spread of the new crown pneumonia. The Japanese market needs to produce 100 million masks every week to meet the country's needs. Japan's Ministry of economy and labor and the Ministry of health and labor raised 120 production requirements for masks, giving subsidies to enterprises that need to invest in equipment. Meanwhile, in response to the masks gap, Japan has announced that it will gradually resume the import of masks from the Chinese market.

South Korea: because of the spread of the epidemic, the demand for masks in Korea has increased by 76.5 times. At present, the South Korean mask has a daily output of about 11 million. The South Korean government plans to increase the mask production to 14 million per day by expanding the production of key raw materials for masks and prohibiting the export of raw materials, thereby alleviating the current "mask shortage". In addition, the Korean government also decided to ban the export of masks in principle, and further increased the proportion of compulsory public sales from 50% to 80%. According to local media reports, the South Korean government decided to start from the 9 day, the implementation of the mask single and double restriction measures. On the basis of the tail number of the buyer's birth year, the number 1 and 6 will be purchased on Monday, and 2 or 7 will be purchased on Tuesday. Meanwhile, each person buys two masks per week.

Italy: facing the increasingly serious epidemic situation, the government of Italy has taken measures such as closing the city, closing schools, and closing entertainment places. According to media reports, masks in many cities in Italy are in urgent need of stock, and masks have become hot selling products on the Internet. The price has risen from 10 euro (0.76 yuan) to 10 euros (about 76.2 yuan).

Iran: the factory of Iran's production masks has been fully functioning, but the capacity has not yet fully covered the population in the epidemic area. In the capital city of Tehran, the price of respirators has increased ten times, but still in short supply.

France: 4 pm local time, the Prime Minister of France formally issued a decree: from March 3rd, the French Ministry of health uniformly expropriated French masks stock and production capacity, giving priority to public health professionals and patients infected with new coronavirus. The scope of acquisition includes: all public and private enterprises FFP2 class mask respirator inventory, all production or sale of manufacturers of spatter respirator inventory, and from the date of promulgation of the decree to May 31, 2020, all levels of FFP2 mask and splash mask.

Germany: last week, the German Customs intercepted 240 thousand imported protective masks from Swiss Corporation. The Swiss side had summoned the German ambassador to protest the export ban and urged the German authorities to release the intercepted materials immediately. Another media report said that in March 4th, Germany banned the export of all kinds of medical protective materials including goggles, protective masks, protective clothing and gloves.