U.K.’s ‘Obscure’ PPE Process During Pandemic Challenged

  • Government PPE contracts criticized at London court hearing
  • Protective masks, gowns bought in April, May, still in storage

NHS workers wearing PPE in Liverpool. 

Photographer: Oli Scarff/AFPGetty Images

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A public-interest group told a London court that the U.K. wasted millions of pounds on Covid-19 personal-protective equipment as it rushed into contracts at the start of the pandemic.