Yushchenko: Ukraine to boost face mask production
A couple embraces while keeping their faces covered with masks to prevent getting infected with the deadly swine flu.

Yushchenko: Ukraine to boost face mask production

Oct 31, 2009 at 17:07 | Interfax-Ukraine
Lviv, October 31 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian enterprises will in three or four days start to produce up to one million face masks a day, Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has said.

“I held the necessary talks, and we’ll soon involve two state-run enterprises, and within three or four days they will produce up to one million gauze masks a day,” he said at a council in Lviv on Saturday.

He also ordered local government agencies to shut all markets.

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