The government of Canada signed an agreement with Warren Buffett-backed EV maker BYD for the production of tens of millions of masks and millions of litres of hand sanitizer fluid. BYD has the world’s largest mass-produced face masks plant. The plant is now running at full capacity and is able to produce 15 million masks and 300,000 bottles of disinfectants per day.
Some hospitals in Ontario have already received medical masks from BYD. The medical supplies ordered by the government of Canada from BYD will be full-filled with the shipments in April and May.
BYD announced on April 9th that it will pledge a donation of $1 million in medical supplies, including PPEs and hand sanitizer to transit agencies and first responders in the Canada and United States.
Softbank Group in Japan also signed a agreement with BYD to secure 300 million medical masks every month for Japan beginning from May. 1/3 of them are N95, the rest are regular surgery masks. The population of Japan is 125 million.
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