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Pandemic PPE: how Australia entrusted a small-time retailer with $100m and got 46m unusable masks
As the world scrambled desperately for protective equipment in 2020, Australia made a hasty deal with a virtually unknown supplier. It went disastrously wrong
- Exclusive: Australian government paid millions for unusable Covid face masks from obscure online retailer
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In April 2020, with Australia gripped by the pandemic’s early, frenzied stages, a group of doctors wrote an alarming letter to the then prime minister, Scott Morrison.
Frontline medical staff, they warned, were being placed in significant danger by the lack of quality personal protective equipment.
Read the original article at The Guardian