The Antonov 225 has been chartered by the German military to make three trips from China to Leipzig, each flight carrying 8.5 million face masks, the first of those arrived on Sunday according to
www.tagesschau.de. I suspect that whatever to cost, given that German states are now mandating the wearing of masks on public transport and in shops, the government decided that they'd better make them available, even though presently homemade masks, cobbled together from scarves, bandannas or whatever else are currently acceptable.