Shortages of critical equipment have led to fierce competition among buyers from Europe, the US and around the world.
A regional leader in Paris described the scramble to find masks a"worldwide treasure hunt".
New York governor Andrew Cuomo warned this week that New York could run out of ventilators in six days.in public to help fight the spread of coronavirus - but insisted he will not follow suit because"he doesn't want to". Despite the guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , the president said he had no intention of following the advice himself, adding:"I'm choosing not to do it."The French prime minister has said he is"fighting hour by hour" to ward off shortages of essential drugs used to keep COVID-19 patients alive.
Philippe Montravers, an anaesthesiologist in Paris, said medics are preparing to fall back on older drugs such as the opiates fetanyl and morphine that had fallen out of favour because newer painkillers are in short supply."We've had doctors, nurses, care-givers who got sick, infected ... but who have come back after recovering. It's a bit like those World War I soldiers who were injured and came back to fight.
It comes as the head of the International Monetary Fund said the recession sparked by the coronavirus pandemic is"way worse" than the 2008 global financial crisis.Ms Georgieva said 90 countries have already approached the institution for emergency financing.
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