The National Armed Forces (FAN) of Burkina Faso is mass-producing face masks to protect against the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19), APA learned from the Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday.By Alban Kini 

According to the Prime  Minister’s communications service, the FAN production unit, already  produces more than 5,000 masks per day.

This daily production is expected to rise to 15,000 masks daily.

Prime  Minister (PM) Christophe Joseph-Marie Dabiré, on Tuesday, visited the  FAN’s mask production line, his communication service reports.

“The  masks produced by the army will be used primarily to equip students and  teachers, in the context of the upcoming reopening of secondary, higher  and primary education institutions,” the Prime Minister’s Office says.

It  says that as part of the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, the  Burkinabe government has made the wearing of the masks compulsory  nationwide, from April 27, 2020.

Burkina Faso, which recorded its  first two positive cases of Covid-19 on March 9, 2020, has on April 21,  2020 confirmed 600 more infections, with 362 recoveries.

 200 patients are still receiving treatment while 38 people have died of the virus.