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NewsColony Two hundred MILLION pieces of PPE in the UK’s stockpile were ‘out of date’ when coronavirus hit Millions of pieces of personal protective equipment in the UK’s stockpile were out of date when coronavirus  hit – with thousands more that were hurriedly bought in from a Turkish T-shirt salesman now declared ‘useless’.   Some 200 million articles of PPE had all expired from the national inventory before January 2020, according to stock lists seen by a  Channel 4 News  investigation.        When coronavirus hit the UK over half of all surgical face masks in the national inventory had expired, along with 80% of respirators – 20.9 million respirators from a total of 26.3 million, according to the report. The discovery suggests a failure on the part of Public Health England and NHS  supply chain management firm, Supply Chain Coordination Limited.    Mehmet Duzen, a former parliamentar...