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On March 27, Bank of China donates medical supplies (including 30000 medical masks, 10000 sets of protective clothing, 10000 goggles and 50000 pairs of gloves, followed by N95 medical masks) to Canada fighting against COVID-19. We are together! pic.twitter.com/47VlWPlQyG — ChineseEmbassyOttawa (@ChinaEmbOttawa) March 28, 2020

The pledge, published on Twitter amid reports Canadian hospitals and other health-care facilities are rationing such protective equipment, was met with messages of thanks from Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne and others.

Yet there are reports the Dutch government is recalling around 600,000 defective masks that were recently shipped from China, some of which were distributed to various hospitals in the Netherlands. Spain has also raised concerns about Chinese-made COVID-19 testing kits that were faulty.

“We will be receiving equipment — masks and gloves and gowns — from China extremely shortly in the coming days,” Trudeau said during his daily news conference outside his Ottawa home on Sunday.

“At the same time I can assure people that Health Canada has very strong procedures for evaluating (and) ensuring what we get is up to the necessary standards and there will be no corners cut on this one. We need to make sure that the equipment that our health-care workers rely on to keep them safe as they keep us safe is of a quality that is going to actually do the job.”

The Dutch Ministry of Health confirmed Sunday that the country received a shipment of masks from a Chinese manufacturer on March 21 which, upon inspection, did not meet required standards.