Canada’s innovation minister says that the country is moving quickly to increase production of personal protective equipment (PPE) in its fight against the novel coronavirus. “We are mobilizing industry at an unprecedented rate to scale up operations, to retool,” Navdeep Bains, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, told Global News’ Mike Le Couteur on The West Block. “There’s a lot of goodwill out there.” “Many companies are stepping up and we’re going to engage with them.
And I’m confident that we’ll have more supplies, not less, going forward in the coming weeks and months.” Personal protective equipment, which includes items such as gloves, masks and gowns, is essential for health-care staff in direct contact with the virus.