Chancellor Rishi Sunak says the UK is receiving shipments regularly from domestic suppliers as well as those from overseas – including a shipment of 140,00 gowns from Myanmar. The Turkish shipment is still delayed, however.
“We are working hard to get the PPE our frontline NHS and social care staff need,” he says.
He is joined by Chief Scientific Advisor, Angela Mclean and Yvonne Doyle Medical Director of health protection for Public Health England.
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