The shortage of N95 respirators in regional hospitals at the start of the pandemic will not happen again, federal and provincial political leaders promised Friday in an announcement of an expansion of a Brockville 3M production facility.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford met on site to jointly announce that each of the government’s points is making a $23 million investment to adjust another $23 million according to 3M to expand the facility to produce 50 million N95 respirators according to the previous year. the next five years.
Ontario will get 25 million respirators and Canada will get 25 million respirators a year.
At his television conference, Ford admitted that in April, the province had only a critical mask week for frontline fitness personnel in the province, but said this would not be done with new measures such as the 3M partnership.
“We find ourselves in a terrible situation. I can tell you that they are involved about where we would get the next shipment of PPE, that’s what kept me awake at night,” Ford said, adding that in April, Ontario left with a source of N95 masks for a week.
He congratulated Trudeau on “being in combination as a country and as confident as I am here, I can tell you that this will never be ours again.”
Ford, the expanded 3M plant, will be launched early next year.
The assignment is expected to create 30 jobs in Brockville, adding production operators, technicians, procedural engineers, supervisors and quality assurance professionals.
At the presentation, Trudeau told reporters that “fighting COVID-19 is an effort by Team Canada and since March we have sent millions of protective devices to our provincial and territorial partners, whether hospital gowns, gloves, face protectors or masks.” we’ve been working around the clock with our must-have workers.”
He noted that earlier in the summer, GM workers in Oshawa began generating 10 million masks, “items that are already coming out of the chain.”
Trudeau congratulated 3M on its components to expand its new N95 mask production amenities and said, “This is a component of our Made in Canada plan to locate responses to COVID-19. This will protect our frontline staff and national PPE production in the coming years.
Ontario reported 131 new COVID-19 cases Friday, up from 76 the day before.
Hastings Prince Edward Public Health reported a new CASE of COVID-19 on Monday, but said it was travel-related and not contracted via network transmission.
A new case of COVID-19 is on display at the lab on July 30, attributed to a trip.
The most recent case confirmations bring the total number of cases to forty-five logged since the physical workplace began recording the number of virus cases in the catchment area.
According to the Hastings Prince Edward Public Health Scoreboard, 38 confirmed per laboratory were recovered and a total of 178 were probably recovered.
To date, five other people have died as a result of COVID-19 in the domain served through Hastings Prince Edward Public Health.
Eight of the physical condition were inflamed, while six of the physical condition were indexed as probable.
No user known as hospitalized or in intensive care.
To date, 21,454 tests have been conducted in the area, the gym said.
Ontario’s Ministry of Health has recorded a total of 41,179 COVID-19 and 2,796 deaths reported to date.
The Ontario government has also recorded 37,397 cases resolved to date, but reported that 35 Ontario residents were in the hospital, adding thirteen in intensive care teams and seven with respirators.
In Canada, a total of 123,873 cases have been reported, with 4,531 recently pending active cases and 9,054 deaths to date.
Globally, the pandemic has inflamed approximately 22.5 million people, in 789,197 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
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