The new piracy: the US surpassed Germany, France and Canada millions of medical masks, paying more and cash

In the United States, as in many other countries, faced with an out of control outbreak of coronavirus, an acute shortage of critical personal protective equipment (PPE) including masks and gloves for health workers ALL PHOTOS In the United States, as in many other countries, faced with an out of control outbreak of coronavirus, an acute shortage of critical personal protective equipment (PPE), including masks and gloves for healthcare workers
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In the U.S., as in many other countries facing out-of-control outbreaks of coronavirus, severe lack of mission critical facilitiesTV personal protective equipment (PPE) including masks and gloves for healthcare workers.

On Sunday, April 5, in the United States registered more than 328 thousand cases, and the number of deaths exceeded 9 300. On the eve of the US President Donald trump has warned citizens that this week will become the country’s most severe in terms of the development of the situation with coronavirus. Americans should expect thousands of new deaths.

trump said that the White house has corrected its previous position and now recommends the entire population in a pandemic coronavirus to cover the face. On the eve of U.S. Secretary of defense mark Esper also recommended that soldiers wear masks to protect against coronavirus.

this background, the United States in recent days, held in different countries a number of aggressive procurement of individual protection means, just Perekopa in airports, shipments destined for other countries. Was intercepted or overbought millions of protective masks, in some cases, directly on the runway. On such egregious facts, misleading the Germans, the French, the Canadians… Many States have already accused America of a new form of piracy.

So, the Americans intercepted a Germany ordered a batch of 400 thousand masks of type FFP2 and FFP3 designed to protect medical staff and rescue workers from infection with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. These masks they took in Bangkok. The head of the interior Ministry of Germany Andreas Gisel said that it was tantamount to “an act of modern piracy”.

Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau April 2 instructed to verify the repurchase and transfer in the US protective masks, commissioned by Canada one of the manufacturers of hockey equipment.

the three Heads of regions of France accused the U.S. of acquiring several million masks, ordered by the French in China. The head of the region Grand-est, the most severely affected by the coronavirus, Jean Rottner, said that Americans bought ordered France mask right on the landing prose. “They get cash and pay three or four times more than our price of the order,” he said. Ordering with pre-payment was carried out, masks were made, but on the runway in China the French order was taken over by the Americans for cash in three or four times more expensive, and the plane that was to fly to France, went straight to the United States.