Dutch stockpile of unusable masks and PPE hits over 300 million items: Volkskrant

The health ministry is stuck with an even greater stockpile of unusable face masks, gloves and other protective gear than previously revealed, the Volkskrant reported on Tuesday. The ministry already had to declare over 30 million Chinese KN95 face masks unfit for purpose but failed to tell MPs about some hundreds of millions of other protective items which had not yet been tested. Of those, some 308,5 million items cannot be used, a health ministry spokesman confirmed. The cost so...