A passenger plane has returned to the UK with ten million pairs of surgical gloves for NHS staff on the coronavirus frontline.
The flight landed at Bournemouth Airport on the south coast of England on Sunday, having picked up the medical supplies in Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.
The Airbus, owned by Bournemouth company European Aviation Group, had "Thank You NHS" written on its side.
The gloves were given to the NHS supplier that commissioned the flight.
The flight is the second to arrive at Bournemouth with personal protective equipment (PPE), after another plane delivered 120,000 medical gowns from China.
More PPE delivery flights are expected to leave from the airport in the coming weeks.
Paul Stoddart, chairman of European Aviation, congratulated everyone involved in the delivery.
He told the PA news agency: “Today’s flight was a total success. Twenty million gloves, that’s 10 million pairs of gloves, delivered to Crest Medical and on their way to the NHS."
PPE has been a controversial issue in the UK for several weeks.
A major survey by doctors' union the British Medical Association found that nearly half of NHS doctors had been forced to buy their own PPE, or rely on donations from others.
The Government said it has delivered more than a million items of PPE and pointed out that there is huge global demand for medical equipment in the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.
