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Corona current: USA want to ban the export of scarce protective equipment

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America First now also applies to important protective equipment

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“The Chancellor Returns to Her Workplace”

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Angela Merkel returns to the Chancellery. All test results were negative. The quarantine imposed on the Chancellor has ended, reports government spokesman Steffen Seibert.

The United States wants to ban the export of scarce medical protective equipment. The chief of police in Paris causes outrage with a statement. Angela Merkel ends her self-isolation. The developments in the live ticker.

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DThe US government wants to ban the export of scarce medical protective equipment because of the spread of the corona virus. That was announced by US President Donald Trump on Friday evening (local time) at the White House in Washington. The export of respiratory masks of the type N95, surgical gloves and other products should be prevented. “We need these products in our country immediately,” he warned.

The American company 3M, which manufactures respiratory masks, among other things, was critical of the instruction. This has significant humanitarian effects for certain countries. In addition, the step could result in other states also suspending the export of such products to the USA, which would be counterproductive in the current situation.

As a lesson from the coronavirus crisis, the US government wants to bring the manufacture of important medical products back to the United States. A Trump adviser, Peter Navarro, said on Thursday that the crisis had shown how dependent the US was on overseas deliveries. He cited the antibiotic penicillin and respirators as examples.

Paris police chief Didier Lallement caused a stir with comments about Covid-19 patients in the intensive care unit in France. “Those who are in hospital today, those who are in intensive care are now … those who did not initially comply with the exit restrictions,” he told BFMTV on Friday. After violent criticism, he then apologized. “It is a mistake and I regret it,” said Lallement in a short-term press statement.

Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) returned to the Chancellery on Friday after two weeks of corona quarantine. As government spokesman Steffen Seibert said, she has resumed business personally at the government headquarters. Of course, the existing distance regulations would be observed there.

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