'We're getting more orders thanks to the virus'

  • 📰 BBCNews
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 31 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 16%
  • Publisher: 97%

United Kingdom Headlines News

United Kingdom Latest News,United Kingdom Headlines

Coronavirus prompts buyers to look closer to home

For decades, big British retailers turned their backs on UK garment manufacturers. Hundreds of textile factories in towns across the UK closed as High Street stores preferred to buy cheaper clothes from China.

Bhavik can't divulge who his new customers are, but he thinks it is high time British retailers realised the benefits of ordering closer to home. As concern about how to treat coronavirus intensifies, managing director Paul Noble says"manufacturing products for infection control is seeing increased inquiries and orders for products to be used potentially in the treatment of the outbreak".On the first floor of the factory, engineers Karen and Ellen meticulously put parts of the isolation chambers together. They cut and bond panels of thick industrial plastic into sections.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

Well let that be a lesson then especially with brexit. We can sustain ourselves without imports both food and building products

so sad

Pls don't thank Coronavirus for increase in your trade bcz you may also find it waiting for you

Screen people in the United States for flu, probably mostly coronaviruses

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 3. in UK

United Kingdom Latest News, United Kingdom Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Plans to shut schools and curb travel in UK if coronavirus spreadsVirus appears in new cases across Europe as UK prepares contingency plans Very useful once it has spread? Too little too late Pope will be safe.
Source: The Guardian - 🏆 84. / 53 Read more »

Britons in Tenerife fear catching coronavirus while trapped in hotelTourists at locked-down hotel worried situation could echo cruise ship where virus spread
Source: The Guardian - 🏆 84. / 53 Read more »

Coronavirus closures reveal vast scale of China’s secretive wildlife farm industryPeacocks, porcupines and pangolins among species bred on almost 20,000 farms closed in wake of virus なにしてんねん?🥶🥵 Originated in wildlife ? It's manmade designed for exactly the effect it's having it's a targeted virus according to experts . More MSM lies
Source: The Guardian - 🏆 84. / 53 Read more »

Coronavirus: Four more dead in Italy as disease spreads across EuropeThree more people have been confirmed dead in Italy as the coronavirus continues to spread across Europe Strange to think that you, me, the sky employee that wrote this tweet all of us are going to be infected with COVIDー19 we can also apply that to the flu. However as this virus is unknown to science we can’t be complacent about it. It’s a fierce killer.
Source: SkyNews - 🏆 35. / 67 Read more »

Flight attendant diagnosed with coronavirus sparks fears of potential outbreak - follow live700 people in New York under voluntary quarantine amid LA outbreak fears - follow US coronavirus news live LA next? raedalfulaij Um, wut?
Source: The Independent - 🏆 80. / 59 Read more »

Coronavirus cases jump to 400 in ItalyThe worst-affected European country reports a fresh surge, as the virus spreads fast outside China. I’m going Rome in March😫 What are they doing, licking hospital floors?
Source: BBCNews - 🏆 3. / 97 Read more »