‘Vast’ amounts of taxpayers’ money were wasted during the pandemic, with £10 billion squandered on PPE supplies, the Covid inquiry has found.
Baroness Heather Hallett, chairman of the UK Covid-19 inquiry, said that the UK was ‘simply not ready to compete’ in the global race to secure healthcare equipment in early 2020.
The chair found dwindling stockpiles of PPE combined with an over-reliance on China to provide the majority of the UK’s masks, coveralls and eye protection left the country in a ‘perilous state’.
Only a third of the 3.8million masks held in England were usable by April 2020 leaving nurses, doctors and care
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