MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s health ministry on Thursday lowered the price cap on health masks, mandatory across the country to curb COVID-19 contagion, to 0.62 euros ($0.73) per mask.
With value-added tax on single-use masks reduced to 4% from 21%, this is the second cut of the maximum retail price for single-use masks in a week, down from a previous 96 cents.
The use of masks covering the nose and the mouth to prevent coronavirus contagion has been mandatory for months in Spain – which has the second-highest number of cumulative infections in western Europe – for people from the age of six.
(Reporting by Belen Carreo and Inti Landauro; Editing by Ingrid Melander)
