Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced on Tuesday that the government will provide Clean Works Medical and Pure Life Machinery with $2 million from the Ontario Together Fund to help manufacture a sanitizing device for personal protective equipment (PPE) during the coronavirus pandemic.

The investment will create 19 jobs by January and will help ramp up production, Ford said.

"This is an incredible success story about an Ontario apple farmer taking technology used to decontaminate produce and converting it into a device that can decontaminate personal protective equipment," said the premier during the announcement.

Ontario reported lower than 100 cases of the novel coronavirus each of the past two days, with 88 on Monday and 91 on Tuesday. Four new deaths were also announced on Tuesday, bringing the provincial death toll to 2,792.

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