Australian billionaire turns to China for virus fight equipment
Doctors worry over insufficient personal protection
01 April 2020 - 09:37
Melbourne — Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest has spent more than a decade feeding China’s steel-making boom — now he is leveraging his ties there to source medical supplies for the battle against the coronavirus Down Under.
Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation has pledged A$160m ($98m) to source equipment from China, including 33 ventilators, more than 1-million face masks and hundreds of thousands of gloves, nasal swabs and coveralls...
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