Belgian govt warns that masks it distributed in 2020 may con

Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:04 UTC
© Anna Shvets from Pexels Millions of cloth facemasks distributed by the federal government in Belgium in 2020 may contain toxic chemicals according to a newly-leaked report from Sciensano, the Belgian Institute for Public Health.
The Belgian government purchased 15 million Avrox masks and dispensed them through private pharmacies to its 11.5 million citizens. However, due to additional mask sales and delivery efforts by local authorities and private companies,
only an estimated third of the federally-distributed masks were actually used.
The masks
were produced in Asia by Luxembourg firm Avrox and now an investigation is underway following complaints from rival Belgian mass manufacturers about the possible contamination of the Avrox masks with

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