Amid the global pandemic, various fashion houses such as Barbour, Mulberry and Scottish fabric specialist Don & Low have been turning their hand to making hospital gowns and scrubs for frontline NHS workers. And now John Lewis is to reopen its Lancashire-based textiles factory to produce desperately needed PPE.

UK fashion house Barbour is producing 23,000 protective gowns for frontline medical workers battling Covid-19.

The Royal Mint is manufacturing thousands of medical visors for use by frontline NHS staff in the war against COVID-19.