PPE crisis ’21st century’s Dunkirk’

People are coming together across society to help keep the NHS in protective equipment.

Keeping the workers in the UK's National Health Service (NHS) in personal protective equipment (PPE) has become the “21st century’s Dunkirk”, a researcher in England has said.

Referring to the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk during the Second World War, Professor Trisha Greenhalgh said that, because of a lack of PPE, staff are buying their own and people are helping out by making visors on 3D printers in garden sheds, creating masks on kitchen sewing machines and people are donating their own supplies to frontline workers.