Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau just announced 🇨🇦’s #COVID19 Response Fund: a comprehensive series of investments & actions to limit the health & economic impacts of #coronavirus.
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▪️$50 million to support the Public Health Agency of Canada’s public education efforts
▪️$50 million to the Public Health Agency to ensure adequate supplies of personal protective equipment like surgical masks, face shields, & isolation gowns
▪️$50 million to the Public Health Agency to ensure adequate supplies of personal protective equipment like surgical masks, face shields, & isolation gowns
▪️Waiving mandatory 1-week waiting period for EI sickness benefits to support workers in quarantine / self-isolation
▪️Doubling the length of time that employers & workers are eligible to use work-share from 38 to 76 weeks
▪️Doubling the length of time that employers & workers are eligible to use work-share from 38 to 76 weeks
▪️$500 million to provinces & territories for critical health care system preparedness & mitigation efforts — like testing, equipment, surveillance & monitoring. Financial considerations will not be an obstacle to hospitals & health systems making necessary preparations
▪️$100 million to support federal public health measures: enhanced surveillance, increased testing at the National Microbiology Laboratory, & ongoing support for preparedness in First Nations & Inuit communities — building on initial $50 million for the immediate response
▪️$275 million (on top of recent $27 million announced for coronavirus research) for increased research on medical countermeasures, including antivirals, vaccine development & support for clinical trials
▪️$50 million to support efforts of the @WHO & other partners to address the worldwide outbreak & help more vulnerable countries prepare&d respond to the virus
▪️Support for businesses should the economy experience tightening credit conditions by strengthening investment in federal lending agencies.
