#StrongerTogether: the EU’s Civil Protection response to Coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic brought with it new challenges, such as the lack of sufficient availability on the market of personal protective equipment.
In response to the needs and also to prepare for such situations in the future, rescEU’s reserve of capacities has been broadened in March 2020 to also include strategic medical equipment.
Hosted in EU Member States, this medical stockpile delivered results in just over a month since it was created. FFP2 and N95 protective masks were delivered to Italy, Spain, Croatia, Lithuania as well as to Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia and Serbia from the rescEU stockpile. In total, some 520,000 masks have now been delivered and more will follow.
© European Union, 2020
#StrongerTogether: the EU’s Civil Protection response to Coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic brought with it new challenges, such as the lack of sufficient availability on the market of personal protective equipment.
In response to the needs and also to prepare for such situations in the future, rescEU’s reserve of capacities has been broadened in March 2020 to also include strategic medical equipment.
Hosted in EU Member States, this medical stockpile delivered results in just over a month since it was created. FFP2 and N95 protective masks were delivered to Italy, Spain, Croatia, Lithuania as well as to Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia and Serbia from the rescEU stockpile. In total, some 520,000 masks have now been delivered and more will follow.
© European Union, 2020