Last Updated: 2020.04.30
Fast Retailing to Donate 200,000 Isolation Gowns and Functional Innerwear Items to Medical Institutions in Japan - Clothing to Support Facilities Dealing with COVID-19
FAST RETAILING CO., LTD.
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Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. today announced that to support efforts to counter COVID-19, the company will donate to medical institutions in Japan 200,000 isolation gowns, along with UNIQLO' functional innerwear AIRism items.
The isolation gowns have been procured from Fast Retailing's manufacturing partners in China and will be provided to core hospitals and other institutions involved with the COVID-19 response. The donations will be made through prefectural governments and the Japanese Nursing Association, mainly to areas with many reports of infections, including Tokyo, Osaka, and Kanagawa. Delivery to prefectural governments is projected for the middle of May.
Fast Retailing will also donate items of UNIQLO's functional innerwear AIRism to health professionals throughout Japan, via prefectural governments. Fast Retailing has donated AIRism to medical institutions and other facilities in Europe and Southeast Asia through its local UNIQLO subsidiaries and received feedback that wearing these items under protective clothing and isolation gowns helps to alleviate their physical burden by reducing stuffiness and other discomfort. For this reason, as part of emergency support, the company will provide it to medical institutions that deal with COVID-19 in Japan.
Support for Medical Institutions Worldwide and Local Communities
On March 26, Fast Retailing announced that as a measure to support efforts to combat COVID-19, it would donate 10 million medical masks, mainly for use at medical facilities and other organizations around the world, including Japan. Donations to 19 countries and regions have already been confirmed, and most deliveries completed. In Japan, the first 350,000 masks were provided to the government's mask team in the middle of April, and the company expects to complete delivery of a total of over one million masks by mid-May.
Fast Retailing, through its local subsidiaries, has also made donations in 17 countries and regions where the company conducts business to NGOs and other organizations who are assisting society's most vulnerable, such as the homeless and victims of domestic violence. Items supplied include innerwear like AIRism and HEATTECH, as well as down jackets and additional cold-weather clothing. Amid the constantly changing global situation, Fast Retailing will continue to offer support.
Fast Retailing aims to provide clothing that supports clean and healthy lifestyles for everyone. Going forward, the company will continue to give the assistance necessary to end the COVID-19 pandemic as soon as possible.
