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Israeli Jeweler Makes $1.5m Gold Coronavirus Mask

Associated Press

   An Israeli jewelry company is working on what it says will be the
   world's most expensive coronavirus mask, a gold, diamond-encrusted face
   covering with a price tag of $1.5 million.

   The 18-karat white gold mask will be decorated with 3,600 white and
   black diamonds and fitted with top-rated N99 filters at the request of
   the buyer, said designer Isaac Levy.

   Levy, owner of theYvelcompany, said the buyer had two other demands:
   that it be completed by the end of the year, and that it would be the
   priciest in the world. That last condition, he said, "was the easiest
   to fulfill."

   He declined to identify the buyer, but said he was a Chinese
   businessman living in the United States.

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