MILAN, April 13, 2020 – Salini Impregilo (Webuild) has donated 60,000 FFP2 masks to the tax, military and regular police forces. It is the second donation of protective gear made by the Group after having recently distributed 70,000 masks to the regions in Italy that have been hardest hit by the coronavirus (COVID-19) (Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria, Lazio, Campania and Sicily). It has done it to express its solidarity with the communities where it has operations during this national emergency.

With this latest gesture, Salini Impregilo wants to thank and support the members of the various police forces who are on the front line in the fight against the pandemic, maintaining public order.

The masks follow the first 20,000 that the Group donated to senior citizens’ homes in Milan, as announced by Mayor Giuseppe Sala. Lazio Governor Nicola Zingaretti and the regional unit of Civil Protection coordinated the supply of 10,000 masks to the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani in Rome, which collaborates with the World Health Organization in research, diagnosis, training and response to highly contagious diseases. In cooperation with Liguria Governor Giovanni Toti and Giacomo Raul Giampedrone, the counsellor responsible for infrastructure and the environment who works closely with Civil Protection, another 10,000 masks were donated to the San Martino General Hospital in Genoa. After contacting Piedmont Governor Alberto Cirio, the regional health and welfare authority decided to distribute the masks in the regional network of senior citizens’ homes. Lastly, 10,000 masks were then given respectively to the regions of Campania and Sicily in agreement with governors Vincenzo De Luca and Nello Musumeci, who oversaw their distribution among hospitals.

The donation to the regions was done as the Group, present in 50 countries, proceeds with its activities. It has adopted the necessary safety conditions for workers, such as on the site of the new bridge in Genoa and the M4 metro line under construction in Milan, to ensure that projects deemed strategic to communities and clients proceed under the strictest rules to protect as much as possible the health of direct and indirect employees.