Tens of millions of cloth masks that proved unpopular when they were produced by the Japanese government remain unused and are being stored at a cost of hundreds of millions of yen. The leftover masks are worth 11.5 billion yen ($97 million).
About 83 million of the cloth masks, called “Abenomasks,” are in storage, or nearly one-third of the 280 million procured by the government during a severe shortage of surgical masks last year. The government had planned to distribute two to every household.
Few people actually used the masks. Abe modeled one, which barely covered his nose and mouth. People complained that they were too small and arrived too late, when more effective and comfortable surgical masks were back in stock. The leftovers currently in storage are worth 11.5 billion yen and their storage cost 600 million yen between last August and March this year, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihiko Isozaki said at a regular news conference.
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