‘£500K A DAY' FOR PPE STUCK IN CHINA

AROUND £500,000 of taxpayer cash is being spent on storage space in China every day.

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Health Minister Edward Argar admitted the Government had rented 9,512 shipping containers during the pandemic to hold around 1.6 billion pieces of unused PPE that never left Shanghai.

In answer to parliamentary questions, he said the items were being held at 23 sites in 10 counties in the UK, and one site in Shanghai. An official report out last week said the PPE will deteriorate while kept in the containers.