You can now buy respirators in 30 Prague metro stations

The Prague Public Transit Company (DPP) has announced they will be selling FFP2 respirators from certain metro stations across the city.

Recently the Czech government announced a tightening on the type of masks that should be worn in shops, services, at public transport stops, on public transport, airports, a number of other facilities. This included wearing respirators rather than cloth or homemade masks.

DPP is now selling them at 9 Infocentres,  30 points of sale, and also its online shop. With one mask priced at CZK 10 and you can only buy ten masks per person.

The points of sale include stations such as Anděl, I. P. Pavlova, Můstek, and many more with a full list posted on the DPP website. The list includes whether they take cash or card payments as well as featuring opening hours. Each point of sale is marked with a sticker at the station.

Finance Minister Alena Schillerová recently said that the Czech Republic has a large stock of respirators on hand and has secured contracts for further supply, following the government decision to require them in a number of spaces.

"We have information that the stock is huge everywhere. We have no signals [about a shortage] from either retail chains or producers," she said.

The Czech government declared the new state of emergency from Feb. 27 for 30 days until March 28, during the meeting they agreed on new measures including the wearing of respirators. The measures were put in place on March 1 for at least three weeks.