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The City Council received a shipment of sanitary protection on Friday, endowed with 30,000 masks and 6,000 gloves, material that will be destined to the consistory workers of the different essential services that may need it, guaranteeing the protection of all municipal employees.

Specifically, the Autonomous Community is the body that will deliver this shipment of gloves - large in size - and masks to the City Council.

"Public health is a priority for the Murcia City Council, which is why we are adopting the decisions that we must take at all times, developing from the minute one the actions of the Contingency Plan," said Councilor for Pedan韆s y Barrios, Marco Antonio Fern醤dez, who noted that "four days before the declaration of the state of Alarma, we had already postponed various mass events to prevent the spread of the coronavirus."

Decision making prior to the declaration of the alarm status

Before the Central Government declared the state of Alarm on March 14, the City Council launched a battery of measures and actions that are part of the Contingency Plan.

From March 10 to 14, the day that the alarm state came into force, the City Council launched a series of actions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, such as the postponement of various mass events, as well as the activities of centers cultural, theaters and municipal auditoriums;

the closure of municipal libraries, nursery schools and study rooms, and the suspension of physical tests of the Local Police oppositions planned for that date, among other measures.

In addition, two weeks before said declaration, on February 29, the Health and Safety commission held a meeting with representatives of municipal workers to give them a series of preventive recommendations about the virus, at which time no case was registered in Murcia.

More than 100,000 gloves, among other sanitary protection materials

Currently, the City Council has the following health protection materials, which will be used by municipal workers:

路 101,150 gloves of different sizes.

路 34,600 surgical masks.

650 FFP2 / KN95 respiratory protection masks.

路 4,250 cloth masks.

路 2,000 units of gauze masks.

850 units of acetate visors

路 48 kilos of hydrogel.

路 15 liters of alcohol 90潞.

4,000 surgical masks shipped from Nanning

Among the health protection materials listed are the 4,000 masks that were sent from the Chinese city of Nanning, with which Murcia has signed a protocol for bilateral relations.

Permanent efforts to ensure long-term supply

The Murcia City Council maintains various ways of supplying personal protective equipment to ensure that municipal personnel can dispose of it throughout the duration of the health crisis.

According to the supply planning, within 10 days, several orders will be received with the PPE that may be necessary during the month of May.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia