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Federation donates gloves

KUCHING: Deputy Chief Minister and State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) chairman, Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas Uggah (fourth right) receives 50,000 surgical gloves donated by Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM). They were handed over to him yesterday at the Old State Legislative Assembly Building by the federation’s Sarawak branch vice chairman, Leslie Phuan Puay Khing […]

Face masks, gloves everywhere

by Mohd Alif Noni & Ramidi Subari KUCHING: Millions of face masks, gloves and other personal protection equipment (PPE) have been issued for free to the people. When these were being distributed out, the people were told on the need to have these properly disposed of because the Covid-19 virus might get trapped there. But […]

Bright future for rubber gloves export

KUCHING: Malaysia’s export of rubber gloves is expected to increase to 225 billion units this year. The increase will generate exports earnings of over RM20 billion as compared to 170 billion units with export earnings valued at RM17.3 billion last year. Plantation Industries and Commodities Deputy Minister Willie Mongin disclosed this after receiving donation of […]

Masks, gloves don’t stop virus spread

BY AMÉLIE BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS Wearing masks and gloves as a precaution against coronavirus is ineffective, unnecessary for the vast majority of people, and may even spread infections faster, experts said Tuesday. While near-total lockdowns have been imposed in Italy, Spain and now France, the World Health Organisation’s advice has remained unchanged since the start of the […]

Supermax contributes three million medical gloves to Wuhan

KUALA LUMPUR: Supermax Corporation Bhd will contribute two million pieces of medical grade gloves to Wuhan, China to aid local healthcare workers in their fight against the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019 – nCoV) outbreak.  In a statement today, the rubber glove manufacturer said the contribution was in addition to the one million gloves already distributed by its local […]