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The test factory to detect the coronavirus Puritan Medical Products , in Maine (USA), has decided to dispose of the production carried out last Friday during the visit of the US President, Donald Trump , after he appeared without the protective mask USA Today reports from company sources.

While Puritan Medical workers were complying with strict safety measures, gowns, plastic boots, hats, masks, goggles, the US president did not wear a mask during his visit, where he stopped several times to speak with the workers. . He even went so far as to take one of the tests and pretended that he was being tested with it, also without wearing protective gloves.

Puritan Medical has not specified how many tests will have to go to the garbage and has limited itself to assuring that they will be only those manufactured during the visit of Donald Trump , although he has pointed out that it is a "limited" production. However, the disruption comes when public health officials in Maine and other states have complained about the mishap at this factory as the shortage of swabs has hampered its ability to massively expand testing for coronavirus .

"The operation of the factory machines is very limited today and has only occurred when the president touches the floor of the facility," Virginia Templet, the company's manager, told USA Today in response to questions about the event. "The swabs produced during that time will be discarded," he added.

Puritan, which received millions of dollars from the federal government to double production , is one of only two companies that makes the type of swabs needed for coronavirus testing .

Trump has traveled extensively in recent weeks to draw attention to his administration's efforts to increase production of the tools necessary to combat the virus . He toured a Ford Motor Co. factory in Michigan, a company that makes personal protective equipment in Pennsylvania, and a Honeywell plant in Arizona that makes respirators.

Those trips have drawn attention to the president's decision not to wear masks when the media cameras are on, even when company employees appear before him protected with them. Trump has noted that the guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend, but do not oblige, to wear face masks.

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