globalnews.ca
94%
474
City of Brandon, Maple Leaf Foods, to distribute thousands of free masks to community
Manitoba reports 40 new cases of coronavirus Friday, tying record for highest daily case count “We’ll look for more days to get more masks out, we’ll see how many we’re able to distribute tomorrow.”Riley says 500,000 masks were on route from Toronto to Brandon Tuesday, where some 10,000 will be divided up among local social service agencies and the rest will be made ready for the public on Wednesday.“This is very generous on Maple Leaf Foods’ behalf, and the city of Brandon is happy to be involved in a partnership with Maple Leaf,” says Brian Kayes, Brandon’s emergency coordinator.“Maple Leaf did all the hard work in terms of logistics and setting this up, so there’s lots of things that they did behind the scenes that I’m probably not