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A nurse putting on full PPE on a ward for Covid patients at King's College Hospital, in south east London.
LABOUR has criticised the “eye-watering waste” of burning half a billion pieces of unused Covid personal protective equipment (PPE) in China.
The government said it was holding some 589 million unneeded items in China as of last September, most of which were destroyed by March of this year in a bid to reduce high storage costs.
By March, some 12 million pieces were still left over. They were also due to be burned in an effort to quickly exit pricey storage facilities.
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
Sharon Graham addresses the Unite policy conference after talks over the Birmingham bin strikes break down