Armed guards have been used to protect a shipment of New Zealand-bound personal protective equipment leaving China, the scramble for PPE being described as “the Wild West”.
A total 500 tonnes of PPE sourced by health equipment supplier NXP will be brought to New Zealand on five chartered flights over 10 days. The first flight – an Air New Zealand Dreamliner – arrived at Auckland Airport yesterday and a second landed today.
Millions of disposable masks, gloves, wipes, hundreds of thousands of coveralls, and face shields are in the shipments, according to Kiwi-owned company NXP.
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