'Not where we want to be on PPE' - Raabpublished at 10:45 British Summer Time 26 April 2020
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who has been deputising for Prime Minister Boris Johnson while he was ill with coronavirus, admitted to Andrew Marr that "we are not where we would want to be on PPE".
Raab said 78 NHS workers and 16 care workers had died from the virus and it had been challenging to obtain personal protective equipment.
But the first secretary of state said the UK was now the "international buyer of choice" for PPE amid a global shortage.
"No stone is being left unturned," he said, both in terms of domestic production and globally acquiring kit.