Imported Masks, Other Medical Supplies Arriving in U.S.
2 min readWEDNESDAY, April one, 2020 (HealthDay Information) — For the 1st time because February, imported N95 professional medical masks are arriving in the United States, but they’re not nearly sufficient to fulfill desire as COVID-19 cases climb.
The U.S. has a essential scarcity of professional medical materials, numerous of which come from China. Prior to this 7 days, the final time that professional medical-grade N95 masks from China arrived in the United States was on Feb. 19, the Connected Press described.
Not too long ago, 24 pallets of the masks built at a 3M manufacturing facility in Singapore arrived at the port of Los Angeles, a hundred thirty,000 of the masks from Southeast Asia had been on a Federal Crisis Administration Agency (FEMA)-booked cargo airplane that landed at John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport, and the humanitarian support group DirectRelief expects eighty,000 masks to soon arrive at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport.
In a written assertion, FEMA reported that it is really recognized an “air bridge” to rapidly carry professional medical materials to the U.S. from factories in Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, India, Honduras and Mexico, the AP described.
The flight that landed at Kennedy Airport was the 1st of these FEMA flights. Alongside with the a hundred thirty,000 N95 masks, the eighty-ton cargo that integrated one.eight million experience masks and robes, ten.three million gloves and 1000’s of thermometers destined for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Other FEMA flights arrived Monday in Chicago with materials to be delivered to other states, and another 19 flights are scheduled, with extra flights remaining added day by day, the AP described.
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