Face masks and coronavirus tests are among the goods reportedly being held up.
, as the U.S. fights to control the world’s largest coronavirus outbreak and healthcare workers face shortages of the supplies.Photo by Chen Jimin/China News Service via Getty ImagesAmong the companies impacted: 3M, Cellex, Inc., Emory Healthcare, General Electric, Owens & Minor Inc. and PerkinElmer, Inc.
Some companies were able to get products shipped following negotiations with the Chinese government, while others remain in limbo,General Electric circuit boards designed for ventilators were delayed for five days due to confusion over the new export rules,China’s Washington, D.C. embassy that worldwide demand for supplies has caused “a big challenge for China’s efforts of quality control and regulation of export.”43%. That’s how much of the world’s imports of medical supplies were made by China in 2018, according to the“Every single day we don’t have the proper protective equipment is a new healthcare worker exposed, is a new hole in the ship that is our current hospital system and ICU bed structure,” Illinois Deputy Gov.
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