Coronavirus News Items: Fri 3.Apr.2020 — Final Edition

Last update: 3.Apr.2020 23:50 EDT

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BNN Bloomberg: 3M says White House asked it stop sending U.S.-made masks to Canada

“The Administration also requested that 3M cease exporting respirators that we currently manufacture in the United States to the Canadian and Latin American markets. There are, however, significant humanitarian implications of ceasing respirator supplies to healthcare workers in Canada and Latin America, where we are a critical supplier of respirators.”

BBC: Coronavirus: US accused of ‘piracy’ over mask ‘confiscation’

Mr Geisel said the diversion of masks from Berlin amounted to an “act of modern piracy”, urging the Trump administration to adhere to international trading rules.

Victoria News: Nanaimo’s Harmac mill works to fill doubled pulp order for medical masks and gowns

[Levi Sampson, Harmac president] said the Harmac mill [in BC, Canada] is the world’s only producer of the particular grade of paper pulp used in the manufacture of surgical masks and gowns and that the mill has been producing it since before he came to work there in 2008.

#irony?

CTV: Ontario confirms 14 more COVID-19 deaths; number of cases in province surpasses 3,000

There are now 3,255 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the province, Ontario health officials said on Friday.

Daily Charts

Macleans: Canadian & International Rates

CBC: Canadian & International Rates

The Guardian: Coronavirus map of the US: latest cases state by state (includes world growth curves)

IHME: U.S. COVID-19 projections assuming full social distancing through May 2020 (includes projections for each state)

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