UK says 50 million face masks it bought might not be safe

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U.K. government says it won’t be using 50 million face masks it bought during scramble to secure protective equipment for medics during coronavirus outbreak because of concerns they might not be safe.

FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, May 21, 2020, personal protection equipment being used in a coronavirus ward at Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge, England. British government said Thursday Aug.6, 2020, that it won’t be using 50 million face masks it bought for medics during the coronavirus outbreak because of concerns they might not be safe.

The papers, published Thursday, are part of a lawsuit against the Conservative government by campaigning groups the Good Law Project and EveryDoctor. They want the courts to review contracts signed by the government for personal protective equipment, which they say were not properly scrutinized. Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, said the government had signed three contracts worth more than 100 million pounds each “with respectively a pest control company, a confectioner and a family hedge fund.”The government said in its response to the lawsuit that the offer to supply the 50 million masks came from Andrew Mills, a businessman who is both an adviser to the government’s Board of Trade and to Ayanda Capital. Mills has denied there was any conflict of interest.

 

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Just put them aside for next round with China.

Incredible.

Surely they have experts to check the 50 Million Face Masks to see if they are safe!

Somehow I’m sure this will be labeled as Trumps fault.

Yes. Best not to use something that works only 80% of the time. Go around without a mask. How wonderfully American.

Mask don’t work for general public use anyways.

Because all were low quality Made in China?

Another amazing win from this hopeless 🇬🇧 government, we can add it to our world beating test and trace system amongst others

And is any country going to take legal action against defective PPE suppliers- many of whom emanate from China? BorisJohnson ScottMorrisonMP POTUS

How about selling them to the public who can use them ?

Face masks don't work. Why did Fauci lie and say we don't need masks? He gets a free pass for mass death.

Laura Ingraham of FOX NEWS will definitely be retweeting this headline.😂😂😂

Masks are generally useless for what we are being told to wear them for.

'Are you a junkie?' O'Biden

TheView Who do you trust to hold China accountable? JoeBiden who sold them our technology to make their subs undetectable or POTUS who’s sanctions crippled China paying the US billions of dollars? Joe said he’s taking them off because it’s not fair to China to punish them.

TheView I believe POTUS he is an upstanding American. JoyVBehar

alaskarebel 50 MILLION...wow.🤦🏾‍♀️

Ear loops instead or head loops? Not safe v safe? What a joke, anyone wearing glasses can tell you the air doesn't go through these surgical masks

The peoples money well spent.

Listen, JACK.. -- my times up. This is a national emergency., My times up. Yes sir.. Every Ban gun nation presents a assault weapons - Enact universal priso n self-interest was rebels in Miami to existential work, not just just yet

TEAM BIDEN TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE DEBATES!!! They know that BIDEN CAN'T HOLD HIS OWN!! Chicken Little is still in the BASEMENT !!! He can't make a move unless his team tells him to move.. IS THIS THE KIND OF PRESIDENT YOU ALL WANT? WAKE UP PEOPLE !!! VOTE RED ALL THE WAY

Well someone should be in jail.

Another Chinese failure?

Like buyers remorse over O'Biden

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