New England Patriots team plane arrives from China with shipment of masks

The New England Patriots team plane has returned to Boston from China on Thursday carrying most of an order of one million masks critical to fighting to control the spread of the coronavirus.

Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker said he had secured the N95 masks from China but needed help transporting them back to the United States for distribution in his state..

Patriots team owner Robert Kraft offered to help and sent the National Football League club's team plane to collect the shipment

Massachusetts could see 47,000 to 172,000 COVID-19 cases during the outbreak which is between .7 and 2.5 percent of the state's population.