Global National: April 6, 2020 | 3M reaches deal on respirator masks for Canada

breaking news this Monday the British Prime Minister is in intensive care the latest on Boris Johnson's condition and who is running that country now new advice from Canada's public health officer wearing a non-medical mass is an additional measure what is the mask more effective and simple homemade like Canada and the US. I continue to fight for supplies for frontline workers and that, of course, is a two-way street and personal protective equipment is running out. I don't sleep at night. Thousands applied for emergency benefits. What happens to those who don't qualify and does the pressure increase? increase testing in Canada

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with Donna Freezin good evening and thank you for joining us, we have a lot of Canadian news to get to tonight and we'll get to it in a moment, but we start with the latest news from London, the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson is in intensive care because his coronavirus symptoms have worsened.

He is the first world leader we know of to become so seriously ill. Johnson tested positive 11 days ago and continued working from 10 Downing Street, where he was self-isolating. He is now in much worse condition. However, his officials say he remains conscious and has been transferred to the ICU in case he needs to be connected to a ventilator. Crystal command Singh has more on Boris Johnson's life struggle British Prime Minister has been moved to intensive care Government spokesperson says move will allow him to be put on a ventilator if needed Early Monday Boris Johnson updated his medical status on social media writing in part I went to the hospital for some routine tests because I still have coronavirus symptoms.

I'm in good spirits and Continuing with my team, we last saw him outside his door on Thursday taking part in the applause for care workers. His condition has clearly deteriorated. We know he has been battling a persistent cough and fever; However, when he was admitted to the hospital on Sunday, it was said that it was not urgent, he shared the news of his original diagnosis on social media on March 27, at which time he said that he was experiencing mild symptoms. his pregnant fiancée also reported symptoms and was in isolation independent of the prime minister. Kerry Simmons last updated his status saying he was on the mend.

Johnson has asked that his unofficial second-in-command, Dominic Robb, be appointed to replace him. Johnson is 55 years old. We know that people infected with the virus can deteriorate quickly. The unit he is in now can provide more surveillance and stepped forward. Prior medical intervention if necessary The fact that Boris Johnson is in intensive care tonight is a shock to many people here in the UK considering that earlier in the day people were still being told that it is just a precaution, it is not surprising that there is a huge amount of support on social media. wishing you the best and of course a speedy recovery Donna, it's ok Crystal, the Singh man in London, thank you.

There is news tonight about medical grade

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. President Trump had ordered the 3m company to stop importing

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he makes and overseas factories where he wanted them all made. United States and stop shipping them to Canada. Canada backed off and tonight the company says it will import 166 million

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s over the next three months to support healthcare workers in the US and that plan will also allow 3m to continue shipping us

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s produced in Canada. and Latin America, where 3m is the main source of supply, another scare is brewing with the US after reports hundreds of thousands of medical grade masks bound for Ontario were held up at the US border .and of course it's a two way street, both countries benefit from this and both countries would lose if obstacles were put in the way of that flow of health support between our two countries and today there is new advice on the use of homemade masks in public, even if you don't have symptoms.

Public health officials in Canada now say they can provide some protection from infecting others, but they are no substitute for physical distancing. Mike Doral on the developing story on masks: There is no more sought-after item in the world of medical supplies right now, when a shipment of American-made n95 masks bound for Ontario was stopped at the border the end of the week, which unleashed a political tug of war. -At this time it is very difficult to cross the border and I understand that two separate orders of about four million masks and half a million have been delivered.

The fight for mass reached its climax last Friday when the president of the United States, Donald Trump. invoked the Defense Production Act that prevents 3 million ex- Canada and Latin America from being disappointed because 3 million should take care of our country on Monday. The Premier of Ontario was direct. Frontline workers are running out. We're left with about a week's supply and it's not much better. in Quebec, Lisak's mom, oh no, I train my cattle government, where they are reduced to less than two weeks supplying 3 million, he says he is capable of making about 100 million n95 masks per month, which would be a number remarkable, except for the unprecedented

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Deputy Prime Minister Krishna Freeland called mask market the Wild West France and Brazil are among countries complaining about being drastically outbid on orders, all of which has led Canada's public health chief to order hospitals to conserve the use of masks that can be disinfected and now they say the public homemade masks are better than no mask wearing a non-medical mask is an additional measure we are considering to protect others around you we have very little inventory she says all medical grade masks are required for ultralight frontline workers Global News Toronto, the reason we are asked to stay home if we can and stay physically distant from others is to stop the spread.

If this virus can't reach you, it can't infect you and you have to assume everyone has it except the Outbreaks and the level of testing vary depending on where you live in this country tonight Eric Sorenson looks at what the data reveals at this stage Kovat 19 It has moved across the country in stages, exposure and incubation at first invisible, then we saw strong evidence that the disease began. It is spreading and we are now witnessing the third phase the sobering statistics that Canadians are dying in greater numbers The Premier of Ontario somber as he emphasizes the dangerous time we have entered here in Ontario we have 1600 lives at stake this month alone this is a matter of Life and Death The impact of Kovan 19 has been seen most tragically in seniors and in long-term care facilities across the country.

We know he is entering a long-term care facility. We can have devastating results. The first death in Canada from Kovan 19 was recorded in March. On the 8th it took more than three weeks to reach 100 deaths, on March 31, but then only four more days to go over 200 and approaching 300 just one day later, the sharp increase in mortality will continue, but for how long and how much? It is a critical month for this country because it is more than numbers, it is lives, two provinces are in the most worrying areas. Ontario with one hundred and thirty-two deaths as of today.

Quebec now at 121. Both also have a high percentage of positive tests. Quebec 8.6 per cent in Ontario five point five a sign there may be more undetected cases the average in other provinces and territories 2.2 per cent positive tests, but testing has not been uniform across the country Alberta has conducted testing at more than 14,000 per million people, followed by Quebec and Saskatchewan Ontario has conducted just over 5,000 less than half as many tests per capita as the top three provinces. Experts believe widespread testing can save lives by tracking the spread of kovat 19. Those numbers are extremely useful in providing public health support to different places, but also at the individual level is extremely important to help guide individual management and individual attention in general.

Canada has done more testing than many countries. We have done relatively more testing than other places. Despite all the challenges we have faced, we have done quite well, but more so. Something needs to be done as Canada faces a statistical uptick in the numbers that ultimately matter most: our death rate. Eric Sorenson Global News Testing in Toronto here in Canada has been increasing, but it has not reached the point where everyone who has symptoms is getting a test. Canada is spending millions of dollars on new technology that will produce more and faster tests, but as Abigail Beeman reports, it's not here yet.

Telephone booths for testing in South Korea. A doctor who set up a makeshift testing tent in Germany. Two countries that are doing relatively well in this pandemic. high testing rates every day we are doing more testing than the day before we recognize that large-scale testing is a key element in flattening the curve in Canada more than 330 thousand people have been tested but there are countless people with symptoms but not with restrictions nationwide on who is eligible due to limited supply and priority for health care workers and vulnerable communities and the country's largest province, Ontario, with the most deaths, is still lagging behind, you want the testing what you have and whatever, have mercy on the populations. where you are going to make a decision after you have received the test results, so if you are staying home anyway, we will prioritize others.

Ottawa still won't say how many test kits they've ordered, only that we're ordering more trying to focus on domestic production in the face of a global shortage, like its contract with Spartan Bioscience for rapid test kits. We are preparing now to be able to produce millions of these tests per year in Canada and now Very soon we will get healthcare approval and start shipping it and Canada's chief public health officer says they are looking at serum logic tests in the future to see if people carrying the antibodies were infected but recovered to observe immunity. You're not sick or you're immune, either option would be a yes and I think that's where we need to go to be safe and equally important as evidence as people try to figure out how to one day get back to normal life contact.

Tracing the painstaking work of trying to discover everyone an infected person has come into contact with and contacting them, Ottawa is currently calling for volunteers across the country to help Donna. Well done, Abigail Beeman and Ottawa, thank you to hundreds of thousands of Canadians. have already applied for the federal emergency response benefit within the first nine hours of the online portal opening, at least five hundred and thirty-two thousand people applied for the benefit, which is just a fraction of the number of Canadians who have been laid off, of course. or had their hours reduced because of this pandemic, the federal government says an average of 1,000 applications are being processed right now every minute, there are others, of course, who do not meet these guidelines, the prime minister said today that the program will still be fine tuning our head of the Ottawa office, Mercedes Stevenson, joins me now Mercedes explains who qualifies for the CRB and how much they will receive, so Donna, with the website open today, those born between January and March can apply and, in fact, they have staggered who can apply. day based on her birth month Because many Canadians are expected to flood the system, let's explain to people at home exactly what makes you eligible and what the CRB will do.

It will provide $2,000 a month for up to four months. You live in Canada to qualify and must be at least 15 years old when you apply. You must also have had an income during the last year of at least $5,000 and have had no income for 14 days in a row in terms of having lost your job can recover so anyone who has lost it as a result of kovat 19 or who cannot work because of the pandemic that includes people who are sick people who have been laid off those who are home caring for a sick family member and Donna also those who are home caring for children now that schools are not in session.

Mercedes, we know that there will be people who will not meet these criteria and who will not be eligible for this. What is Ottawa doing? so the Prime Minister says they know there are holes in the system and let's take a look at some of the people who don't qualify right now and these are people who are hoping to qualify those who work part time who have some kind ofincome, even a little bit counts, they can't have any to qualify for the C ERV and, in addition, summer students, many people about to graduate from college who are looking for work, we spoke to a woman who As a personal trainer, experiences a decline between five and seven thousand dollars in his personal income a month, but because he is still training people a little from home to try to make some money, he is not eligible for this benefit, this is what he said. about the government program I was really frustrated because I feel like as a small business owner one of the things that we can do and we do well is we are creative and we can innovate and we can pivot and I feel like I'm being penalized.

By doing that, Donna, the government says they know there are holes in the system and they will work to fix some of them in the coming days. They already addressed one of them, which is the people who will see the benefits of AI and soon. They will be transferred to the CRB as they cannot leave and find a new job in this environment. Donna is fine, Mercedes Stevenson in Ottawa. Thank you. If you are applying for the Canada Emergency Response benefit, you can do so on the federal government's website

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dot CA or you can call the phone number there are nearly 100 Canadians trapped on the Coral Princess cruise ship heading home Minister of Affairs Foreign Minister Francois Philippe Champagne tweeted that Canadians who pass the medical screening will be able to return to Canada on a Holland America-chartered flight.

When they arrive in Canada they will be screened again and then subject to mandatory 14-day self-isolation. Two people aboard the Coral Princess died in Cove in 1912, others tested positive, according to Princess Cruises, Health officials in the United States say the next two weeks are critical, the death toll in that country has now piled up. The last 10,000 public health officials have warned that this week will bring more deaths and headaches across the United States. Jackson prosto reports that at this critical time New York hospitals are being pushed to the limit the elderly the young are dying because of this it is lethal 80% of the patients in this Brooklyn hospital are being treated by kovat 19 the nurses use garbage bags and clean their clothes with disinfectant wipes doctors wear ski goggles we are seeing many younger, healthier patients and they are arriving in a very critical condition with hundreds of deaths every day funeral homes and mortuaries are overflowing there are warnings that official statistics may not capture people who die suddenly at home, which does happen in other epidemics, especially when the disease is similar to COBIT, where people die quite suddenly if they have serious illnesses. complications of this the governor of New York sees weak signs of hope the number of deaths remained relatively stable for the second day in a row hospitalizations have begun to decline, but it is not clear what that means there is also a real danger in becoming overconfident too quickly this is an enemy that we have underestimated from day one and we have paid the dear price and other cities are only now seeing their numbers increase.

There are 15,000 cases in the state of Michigan, now the third highest number in the US and a public health crisis is feared in poorer rural areas, those are the scary questions we are grappling with right now, no , it doesn't look promising for many areas, particularly in the southern US, it doesn't look promising, it looks like we will probably have higher hospitalization rates. than expected in New York, the hardest hit, are preparing for all possible scenarios that could include the short-term burial of bodies in mass graves in some city parks Incredible Donna Jackson Prosecco in Washington thinks about the future Manufacturers Automakers adjust production in an effort to help with this pandemic This is a prototype ventilator designed by Tesla engineers It's made from repurposed auto parts Your Vice uses a Model 3 electric sedan Touchscreen pumps Compressors and a mixing chamber oxygen has not been tested or approved Tesla is just one of many companies trying to find innovative solutions right now Bill Gates says he will spend billions to accelerate development of a kovat 19 vaccine Microsoft co-founder says the Bill & Melinda Foundation Gates will build factories for seven potential vaccines, he acknowledges.

A lot of money will be wasted as only two of those vaccines are likely to end up being effective, but the financial boost will speed up the entire process. Next, Can You Get Co Deal 19 of the Animals? More answers to your coronavirus questions as we learn more. about this virus, the answer is evolving, and your questions about it keep coming Jeff Simple has the answers to some more tonight one of the latest cases of Kovat 19 took even the health experts by surprise, it surprised everyone because it was not had documented before this. tiger at New York City's Bronx Zoo, the first animal in North America to test positive, leaving many cat owners curious about transmission between coronaviruses.

They have long lived in animals that often originate from bats. Several strains, including MERS and SARS, have made the jump to humans and in a small number of 19 cases, humans have been infected with felines and dogs, but there is no clear evidence that dogs, for example, can transmit to the humans. Interestingly, none of the zoo staff have reported any symptoms that would lead viewers to ask this. tested almost five percent of their population regardless of whether they had symptoms and almost half of those who tested positive were asymptomatic, so we've heard about the transmission of this infection in people who are going to develop symptoms but haven't yet.

They have developed. It's unclear to what extent that is happening in the community; that uncertainty led Canada's top doctor to change course and advise people, even without symptoms, to consider wearing non-medical homemade masks. Hi my name is Kelly McCallum and I live in Marvel Alberta, many of these masks are designed with a pocket to store a filter in them and suggestions range from using a coffee filter to cutting up oven filters and number one vacuum cleaner bags. I think if you put those filters in place it might be difficult to release them, on the other hand if I use my usual scarf, my winter scarf, which is pretty easy to breathe, it probably won't be very effective, so a lot depends on the material.

Here we explain how you can make your own mask in a few simple steps. Canadian and American public health officials. I recommend using 100% cotton material like an old T-shirt with elastic bands to create face coverings, but I always urge people to remember that this is not a substitute for the most important things of washing your hands, not touching your mouth or nose, and , in Overall, staying out of the public is simple: Global News Toronto and we want to keep Jeff busy. He will continue to consult with experts and try to answer your questions, so submit your questions in Global News Dossier and on our website you will find a special page dedicated entirely to CO vid 19 which is in Global News CA / coronavirus and which is

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I'm Donna Friesen, one of the many things that have canceled our citizenship ceremonies, but last week a special virtual citizenship ceremony was held for Ning adult, he is a professor at the University of Manitoba. Canadian officials say his new citizenship allows him to do essential work related to fighting the crisis in 19 and saving Canadian lives because of it, so thanks for watching, bye.