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Ministers under fresh pressure over PPE for NHS heroes on coronavirus frontline

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Labour tonight calls for better safety gear for NHS staff amid mounting fears over new coronavirus variants. Mutations are thought to be up to 70% more infectious than the original Covid-19 strain, meaning frontline health workers are at even greater risk.

But only employees who face the biggest dangers are required to wear the toughest personal protective equipment. FFP3 respirators or hoods are currently only required in areas where “aerosol generating procedures” are being carried out on a patient with a possible or confirmed case of Covid-19.

Otherwise, staff are advised to wear surgical face masks. Labour said that nearly a year after the pandemic reached the UK, workers outside of coronavirus wards still do not have access to FFP3

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