Posted on 04/24/2020 12:18:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Canadian health officials said that around 1 million KN95 respirators obtained from China failed to meet federal quality standards for use against COVID-19 and so were not distributed to staff on the frontlines of the outbreak.
Eric Morrissette, a spokesperson for the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), said the KN95 masks acquired from China were deemed “unfit” for use and as a result, the federal government was unable to distribute the non-compliant masks to provinces and territories in Canada that are facing shortages amid the pandemic.
“To date, PHAC has identified approximately 1 million KN95 masks as non-compliant with specifications for health care settings,” Morrissette said in a statement, according to Canadian news outlet The Globe and Mail.
Canada’s Department of Health did not indicate whether the government would get a refund for the faulty masks, the report noted.
KN95 masks are a China-made model of the popular N95 mask used to protect frontline medical staff from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
According to a report by Politico, Canada relies on China for some 70 percent of its imports of COVID-19 medical supplies.
The United States, too, is vulnerable to disruption of medical supply chains that are rooted in China, though apparently to a somewhat lesser extent. According to an April 6 report from the Congressional Research Service (pdf), U.S. imports from China of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment, products, and supplies amounted to 9.2 percent of all the nation’s imports of such products. America imports more of this category of products from Germany (11.3 percent) and Ireland (15.9 percent).
Still, amid a spike in worldwide demand for such products amid the pandemic, the United States has faced shortages.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
Jussy will just have to get in line behind us, the Czechs, the UK,...
Red China slaps the West in the face.
West to Red China: “Thank you, sir. May I have another?”
The CCP apparently think they are quite clever in trying to force the World to their doorstep, thus their control.
It shouldn’t take much time for the World to re source. It can, and should be done quickly.
Unexpected...
good Maybe countries will finally wake up
Who ever heard of anything made in china as being “quality”?
It’s all cheap junk made by slave labor.
The world should never ever depend on China to deliver quality goods.
Made in China = JUNK!
Slave labor, the secret behind China’s quality powerhouse.
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 - these are ALL the same thing.
Yet the msm doesn’t bat an eye when Gavin Newsome gives a billion dollar deal to China for the same thing. How many millions of faulty ventilators is it now that China has shipped? But these countries don’t learn. California’s order is being crated up and shipped now.
The first sentence identified KN95 as a respirator. The rest of the article identifies KN95 as a mask. It cannot be both.
And California.
RE: good Maybe countries will finally wake up
Many country’s leaders are masochists with gluttony for punishment. Years of unrestricted Islamic immigration that is changing their demographics and they still want more. With that,what are the chances they will wake up?
Newsom Masks $1 Billion Deal with Chinese Company
New-scum already sent $485 Million pre payment to the Chicoms
Newsom Masks $1 Billion Deal with Chinese Company Frontpagemag ^ | 04/24/2020 | Lloyd Billingsley
Posted on 4/24/2020, 9:54:11 AM by DFG
“We’ve been competing against other states, against other nations, against our own federal government for PPE — coveralls, masks, shields, N95 masks — and we’re not waiting around any longer. And we’re no longer interested in the progress that we were seeing in the past.”
That was California governor Gavin Newsom in an April 7 MSNBC appearance with Rachel Maddow. As Newsom added, “In the last 48 hours we have secured –through a consortia of nonprofits and a manufacturer here in the state of California – upwards of 200 million masks on a monthly basis that we’re confident we can supply the needs of the state of California, potentially the needs of other western states.”
As it happened, the manufacturer wasn’t exactly “here in the state of California.” The manufacturer was BYD, “Build Your Dreams,” a Chinese company not known for making personal protective equipment. Newsom wasn’t revealing details of the $1 billion deal, which as John Myers of the Los Angeles Times noted, “will cost taxpayers 30 percent more than the governor’s January budget allotted for infectious diseases for the whole fiscal year.”
“Slave labor, the secret behind China’s quality powerhouse.” Correct, hence the media and globalist love for China. Returning us to serfdom or slavery is their number one priority. Will we allow the covid 19 Constitutional right abuses to set off that particular domino effect?
You’re right
1,000,000 wow
For $1 billion you can start your own factory
Isn't it ironic?
My Canadian blood is thinned out through several generations but I still take this personally...
This effects distance cousins of mine...
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