At the beginning of the epidemic, the federal government finally concluded that the mask can be effectively protected after the initial suspicion of the protectiveness of masks to the detailed analysis of health experts. So the German federal government finally began to decide to purchase masks in large quantities to fight the epidemic, but masks were already in short supply at that time.
The then Minister of Health purchased many masks through various channels. As we all know, in the early stage of the epidemic, there were various chaos in masks. Therefore, in the purchased masks, whether it was active or passive, subjective or objective reasons, the standards were strict or not meeting the standards, etc., many masks were considered unusable.
At that time, Mingjing Weekly broke out that many of the masks purchased by Shi Pan did not pass the CE certification, so those masks were considered unavailable.
Today German media released such a news, "The federal government will burn 800 million masks." The first paragraph of the text is, "The federal government obviously had to deal with hundreds of millions of masks during the pandemic. Former Health Minister Jens Spahn bought these things bad and too much. But the junk now has at least one benefit. "The
article continues," according to a report, the Ministry of Health has had to shake off hundreds of millions of ‘legacy burden’ from its former boss Jens Spahn (CDU). As Spiegel reports, there are about 730 million surgical masks and 60 million expired FFP2. And similar masks will be "heat recycling" (incineration). The Federal Ministry of Health announced that the first batch of masks have been on the list of incineration.
Since the start of the The new crown pandemic, Span has purchased about 5.8 billion masks for 6 billion euros - the Federal Audit Court has complained that this is a 'mass over-purchase'. Of the masks to be destroyed, about 20% of the masks are never delivered due to quality defects.
Social Democratic Party accused Span of the major coalition of distributing so-called CPI masks to vulnerable groups such as the elderly and homeless. The two sides reached a compromise and agreed to put CPI The masks are stored in the national emergency reserve and will not be distributed, but will remain there until the expiration date. "
So, now the first batch of expired masks have been taken out and will be sent for burning.
As for what CPI is, the definition of CPI was found in an article in the first half of 2021 by " São Deutsche ".
The following is the original description---
"Span said that for the Ministry of Health, the safety of protective masks was and is definitely a priority in the past.' As the current focus of protective masks, it has been TÜV Nord and Dekra Together, "intensive testing" was performed.
They 'also obviously have all the characteristics necessary to prevent infection'. And, 'some people now deliberately upset homeless people and disabled people to create an emotion which illustrates more about the situation of the SPD than the quality of the masks', Span said. 'It's indignant that out of electoral strategies Cause, a ruling party seriously accuses the government of treating vulnerable groups in our society in this way.’
In a four-page case note, the Ministry of Health staff explained that there are finally two different test standards: ‘Presidential Masks for COVID-19 infections’ (CPI) and ‘Presidential Safety Masks for COVID-19’ (CPA). The Ministry of Labor requires (also streamlined) The CPA test standards are ‘same’ as the CPI standard jointly formulated by the Ministry of Health in terms of infection protection. All protective masks that meet the CPI standards ensure ‘effective prevention of infection’. “
Finally, unexpectedly, these masks contributed to Germany in this way.
