A NAIL and beauty firm has sold on 100,000 bottles of hand sanitiser to help workers on the covid-19 front line. 

Stockton-based Millennium Nails Europe has sold the supply to the Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) at a price of £2.50 each. A total of 50,000 bottles will be supplied directly to schools, social workers, carers and coronavirus responders through councils across the region.

The remaining units are being sent to GPs, NHS GP practices, Cleveland Police and members of Cleveland Fire Brigade. The first deliveries arrived with the TVCA on Thursday afternoon with three delivery vans from Marske Fabrication and Engineering due to send out the gel.

Yvonne Carter started Millennium Nails 20 years ago and runs it with husband Alan and son, Alan Steven. The international firm had a stock of hand sanitiser available and got in touch with the combined authority to see what it could do. 

Mr Carter said: “We have given a lot of hand sanitiser out to our friends and relations – and to an old people’s home in Wynyard. Through that we got in touch with the authorities and sold them the 100ml bottles at a very good price. I know of one supplier in Scotland who sold them to the NHS at £4.95 a bottle.”

Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen said: “I’m delighted to be able to gift 100,000 bottles of sanitiser to help in our fight to protect our amazing key workers. We must put the safety and welfare of local people first at this difficult time.

“For many on the frontline, hand sanitiser has become almost impossible to find."