The state of Berlin had ordered the respirators with protection classes FFP2 and FFP3 from a US company in China to provide nursing staff with new protective equipment.
How exactly the USA intercepted the delivery is still unclear. Something similar can be heard from France. Renaud Muselier, President of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, also told the television station BFMTV a story about masked theft.
"The Americans appear on the tarmac (editor's note in China), take out cash and pay three or four times more for our order, so we really have to fight," said Jean Rottner.
The Canadian newspaper "Journal de Montreal" also reports that an order for 10,000 protective masks to be delivered from Hong Kong to Quebec (Canada) has been diverted to Ohio.
