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3M Canada in Brockville will produce up to one hundred million N95 masks according to the year as a result of a $70 million agreement with the federal and provincial governments.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Prime Minister Doug Ford announced Friday afternoon at the company’s Brockville plant.
On Thursday, the leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes MP workplace Michael Barrett showed that 3M Canada will get $23 million in public budget from the federal government as a component of a $70 million program from Canada, Ontario and 3M.
The cash will be used to expand 3M production functions in Brockville, where the company manufactures adhesive tape and supplies.
“The production of masks in Brockville increases public confidence in our PPE chain. We can count on Canadians who make masks for Canadians,” Barrett said.
“It’s vital that Canadians have a reliable source for those vital products, and our professional staff here is really up to the task.”
Under this agreement, 3M will need to increase the capacity of its Brockville plant to produce up to one hundred million medical grade N95 masks consistent with the year.
A provincial government official demonstrated that the mask deserves to be used to meet the private, provincial and American call for the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Ford has said Ontario wants to boost the production of non-public protective devices based on the delight of the first COVID-19 crisis, while Canada is fighting at a global festival for a limited source of masks and other gadgets.
Popular N95 masks, used by frontline fitness workers, were rare.
“The stage prevented me from sleeping at night,” Ford said Friday, noting that at the start of the pandemic, the province reduced N95 supplies to a week.
This will be the time of the national contract for the production of the N95 mask, after Medicom, based in Quebec, signed a 10-year agreement for N95 and surgical mask with the federal government in April.
Medicom’s combined contracts make up more than $113 million and come with the source of 24 million surgical masks and 20 million N95 respirators per year.
Meanwhile, Ontario reported 131 new CASES of COVID-19 on Friday, the figure being erroneous due to Data on “Problems” on Thursday.
Results from 11 series of exercises were not included in Thursday’s counts. Health Minister Christine Elliott tweeted that the backs had been added to Friday’s accounts, offering an “overestimation of the bills.”
Elliott said hospitalizations across the province remain stable, and that ICU admissions and evacuated patients are declining.
Local
Ottawa Public Health reported an increase in 36 new COVID-19 cases in its most recent report on Friday. This raises the number of cases to 2,794 since the pandemic notification was cancelled.
A new death was reported, bringing the number to 266.
Six other people have been hospitalized lately, none of them in resuscitation.
Lately there are 147 assets in the capital of which SPO has knowledge and 85.2% have been resolved.
There are 3 outbreaks in the institutions. An outbreak in Mothercraft Ottawa Home Care has been removed.
Another positive check for a TRANSpo OC driving force announced Friday night.
A note to General Transport Councillors John Manconi said the operator had tested positive, raising the total from August 10 to at least seven. The operator in question last worked on 17 August and drove routes 85 and 55 while taking the O train to go to work.
Ottawa Public Health and OC Transpo are working to succeed in their circle of contacts, in paintings and outdoors, on August 15 and 17. Details of the exact schedules of the operator’s itineraries can be obtained on the OC website.
The East Ontario Health Board has known two new cases, adding an institutional break in an organization house in Clarence-Rockland where one tested positive.
Health teams in the Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington and Leeds districts reported a new case.
Elsewhere, Via Rail is strengthening between Ottawa and Montreal and Ottawa-Kingston-Toronto.
The railway says it will increase the frequency between rail corridors from September 1 due to the construction of a so-called “due to slow deconnatation” of cities along the corridor.
The railway says the additions will bring the rail frequency to about 50% of what it was before the pandemic.
National
Medical Health Director Dr. Theresa Tam is ready to do almost everything in the ongoing combat opposed to COVID-19.
But a TikTok social media dance video “probably not” is on the maps.
“I am quite willing” to participate as the federal government prepares to launch a social media bombing to tell “young cohorts” the importance of measures to combat the virus that has inflamed another 123873 people and killed another 9054 in Canada. away this year.
“But a dance video is not something I have interaction with. Other types of exercises would be nice.”
Health Minister Patty Hadju said the accumulation of social media posts is even more vital as the average age of inflamed patients continues to decline. He noted that young Canadians depended more on non-traditional social media for information.
Earlier this week, Toronto Mayor John Tory said the city was contemplating more social media platforms, adding TikTok, to remind young people that COVID-19 remains a threat.
“The proportion of cases among children under the age of 19 and over 20 to 29 has increased, particularly in recent weeks,” Tory said.
-With Canadian Press and Postmedia
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