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Coronavirus: Dental workers wear scuba diving masks due to PPE shortages

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Dental care workers have been forced to wear scuba diving masks to protect themselves from coronavirus due to critical shortages of PPE, a union claims.

This shocking picture sent to Mirror Online shows a dental nurse from the south-east relying on the underwater equipment for protection.

Staff are using the kit while sterilising equipment and decontaminating rooms after treating patients potentially infected with Covid-19.

It comes after more than half of the respondents to a poll of dentists in England reported PPE shortages affecting the operational status of the Government's new urgent care centres.

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