Canada's public health agency is currently scrutinising millions of other respirators and N95 masks. FMTNews N95Mask China Canada
A hospital worker is seen at a Covid-19 assessment centre in North Vancouver last month.
The Public Health Agency of Canada “has identified approximately one million KN95 masks as non-compliant with specifications for healthcare settings,” a spokesman told AFP. The relationship between Ottawa and Beijing has been on the rocks ever since the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, an executive at Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, in December 2018 in Vancouver.
Meanwhile domestic production of masks and other medical supplies “is ramping up”, with contracts signed with three more Canadian companies this week to produce 16 million “medical face shields”.
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