General Motors says it will make 1.5 million masks a month in Mexico

General Motors Co will begin producing 1.5 million face masks a month at its plant in the Mexican city of Toluca at the end of April, it said on Tuesday, aiming for nine million masks over six months to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.

Some masks will be donated to public hospitals in Mexico while others will be used for employees and distributors, the car maker's Mexican unit said in a statement.

GM said in late March it would begin making up to 1.5 million masks a month in the US, after announcing that it would start to suspend operations in North America due to the coronavirus pandemic.