The US government has agreed to a deal with 3M of Minnesota to import more than 166 million respirators from China over the next three months and allow 3M to continue exporting its US-made respirators to Canada and elsewhere. The agreement breaks a deadlock which resulted in Washington stopping nearly three million of the specialized masks from being exported to Ontario, stirring fears that Canada’s most populous province would run out of supplies for medical staff battling coronavirus by the end of the week. CBC
