Haiti currently has 21 confirmed cases and on Sunday recorded its first coronavirus-related death, a 55-year-old male with diabetes and hypertension.NMG partners with UNICEF on Wisdom Project CompetitionĪs UNICEF marks their 75th anniversary, they have partnered with Nation Media Group on their Wisdom Project, an annual youth media competition, asking children and young people to create stories about children's rights in Kenya. Recently Haiti’s new foreign minister, Claude Joseph, invoked the country’s vulnerability as he sought the help of chief of missions in helping the government acquire a list of medical equipment, including 100 ventilators and 200,00 N95 masks, in addition to the $18 million worth of purchase orders that had already been made to China.
Already cash-strapped, countries are facing everything from a shortage of test kits to ventilators and medical gear for health workers.
in helping nations in the region deal with the global pandemic is an emerging concern. The deceased is an 81-year-old Barbadian male who had a pre-existing medical condition.Īs the number of cases in the Caribbean and Latin America continue to escalate, the role of the U.S. market,” the company said.ĭuring Sunday’s press conference, Barbados’ health minister sought to reassure the nation that they had other channels to secure ventilators as the number of COVID-19 cases in the island of nearly 288,000 inhabitants rose to 56 and the first coronavirus-related death was recorded Saturday. “3M and its employees have gone above and beyond to manufacture as many N95 respirators as possible for the U.S. The company said it had already secured approval from China to export 10 million N95 respirators manufactured by 3M in China to the U.S. I’m spending taxpayers’ money and I can only pay on delivery having checked the quality,” the Guardian said Valérie Pécresse, the influential president of the Île-de-France region, told BFMTV. after being outbid by “Americans.” “They offered three times the price and they proposed to pay upfront. That same day, the Guardian reported that a French official from a hard-hit region also complained about having a shipment of medical masks from Shanghai diverted to the U.S. There shouldn’t be “wild west methods,” he said, even in times of global crisis. “This is not how you deal with transatlantic partners,” Geisel said. Berlin’s Interior Minister Andreas GeiseI said they considered the confiscation to be “an act of modern piracy” and urged Germany’s government to demand that Washington play by international trade rules. The German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reported Friday that a delivery of protective equipment ordered by the State of Berlin in China for the coronavirus had reportedly been intercepted and diverted to the United States.
states, have accused the Trump administration and American suppliers of diverting medical equipment and not playing by the rules in the hunt for ventilators and scarcely available personal protective equipment such as N95 respiratory face masks as they struggle to manage their outbreaks. In recent days a number of countries - Canada, Germany, France - and even some U.S. WATCH: Earlier, Barbados Health Minister stated that ventilators purchased by were seized in US correction was subsequently issued indicating the exportation of 20 ventilators stopped in the US were stopped were not of Rihanna's order but of another philanthropic order /9jzbbCsXve- Kevz Politics April 5, 2020 “We remain concerned about pervasive attempts to divide international efforts through unsourced, unattributed disinformation campaigns,” a spokesperson said. He did not respond.Ī State Department spokesperson, in an email to the Herald, seemed to suggest that some previous media reports about seized medical exports may not be accurate. On Sunday night, The Miami Herald emailed, called and texted Bostic for further details on the shipment, including whether he had reached out to the State Department or the U.S. Five of those ventilators, which were announced last month by Prime Minister Mia Mottley, are scheduled to arrive next week, he said. “Ventilators are one of the most in-demand items in the world today and Barbados is merely wrestling with the other 203 countries and territories around the world seeking to secure as many of these pieces of equipment as possible.”īostic did not say who the good Samaritan was but, during the broadcast, he corrected an earlier statement that the seized ventilators were from Barbados-born songstress Rihanna.
“Those ventilators were actually stopped in the United States, the exportation of those 20 ventilators,” Bostic said.
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