A Romanian Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft conducts a round flight on Friday, 8th May, on route Bucharest-Istanbul in order to bring into the country 21 tons of protection materiel.

The materiel, consisting in 145,000 FFP2-type protection masks and 150,000 FFP3-type masks, was procured by the Romanian State through the National Office for Centralized Acquisitions and the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, as part of the efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemics.

The distribution of the protection equipment was done with transportation means operated by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, and allocated, according to the requirements, to the medical personnel throughout the country and the operative crews who act in the field, by means of the county inspectorates for emergency situations.

The Press Office