Coronavirus: French alarm at Covid-linked Med pollution

The group's founder, Laurent Lombard, who shot the underwater footage and posted it on Facebook, says 'these masks - we haven't had them for long, and we're going to have billions, so I say watch out, it's the beginnings of a new type of pollution'. Diving off Golfe-Juan, near Antibes, he found five disposable face masks and four latex gloves on the seabed, along with the usual plastic rubbish such as empty bottles.