On 6 october, local time, the united states white house reached an agreement with 3m, one of the largest manufacturers of medical masks in the united states, that would continue to provide millions of valuable n95 masks to the united states market without prejudice to the delivery of masks to the canadian market. According to the canadian television network, 3m, based in minnesota, has confirmed plans to continue to refill masks for canada and latin america. The company had previously been at the centre of public opinion, and the president of the united states, tran, and his government had criticized the company for not complying with its orders to put united states needs first。
In its statement, 3m stated that the company and the united states government were working together to ensure that the plan did not have a humanitarian impact on the countries that had faced the outbreak. “the scheme will ensure that 3m continues to deliver united states masks to canada and latin america, where 3m is the main supplier.” at the white house briefing, trump announced that his saliva with 3m had ended and commended mike roman, its chief executive officer. Trump claims that 3m will provide 166. 5 million masks for overburdened and oversupplyed health workers throughout the united states. However, he did not mention that the n95 masks were from 3m’s factory in china. In a statement, romans said: “we have the same goal, providing the required masks for the entire united states to fight the criminals who seek to exploit the current crisis.” earlier that day, canadian prime minister trudo had directly named the united states, claiming that canada had been facing for weeks insufficient or no deliveries of goods to combat the new coronary epidemic, particularly the surge in global demand. Trudo said: “we have been aware of some problems in the past few weeks. Shipments from different countries around the world have been delayed or delivered less than we would have hoped. This problem continues, especially in the united states. We are communicating with the united states to ensure that canadian orders are delivered, and we believe that these goods will come.”
