Canada PPE

• Canada’s once booming PPE industry is now ‘running on fumes.’ Why?

  The scramble for PPE began in the spring of 2020, when governments around the world rushed to procure masks, gowns, gloves and other protective gear as COVID-19 spread.

  Economy

  Mar 16, 2023
  
• Coronavirus: Hospital cleaners, admin workers need PPE too, unions say

  There has been a growing outcry from hospital workers across the country that there isn't enough personal protective equipment to go around as hospitalizations for COVID-19 rise.

  Canada

  Apr 7, 2020
  
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• Saskatchewan NDP leader encouraging public to wear masks to slow the spread of COVID-19

  The encouragement goes against federal guidelines that caution the public against using homemade masks, as they can provide a false sense of security for those not ill.

  Politics

  Apr 5, 2020
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• Coronavirus: Trump asks medical supply firm 3M to stop selling N95 respirators to Canada

  Trump invoked the Defence Production Act in an effort to speed up the distribution of desperately needed hospital masks amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

  Canada

  Apr 3, 2020