Percentage of NHS’s China-Imported Health Supply Tripled in 2020: Report

CargoLogicAir flight CLU 5694 lands with a consignment of NHS medical supplies and PPE from China at Prestwick Airport, Glasgow, Scotland, on June 1, 2020. Jane Barlow/PA Media

More than 17 percent of the imported health supplies on the UK’s “disaster relief list” came from China, a new report said.

The report (pdf), published on Tuesday by British think tank Civitas, said the figure was at 6 percent in 2019 but almost tripled since the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic.