SINGAPORE — Prime Glove, the world's largest medical glove maker, has shut 20 manufacturing websites in Malaysia after 1000's of staff examined opt
SINGAPORE — Prime Glove, the world’s largest medical glove maker, has shut 20 manufacturing websites in Malaysia after 1000’s of staff examined optimistic for Covid-19.
A complete of two,684 Prime Glove workers — most of them overseas staff — have examined optimistic as of Wednesday, native media reported, citing Malaysia’s Senior Minister for Safety and Minister of Defence Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
That is by far the most important cluster of recent infections within the Southeast Asian nation, the place a resurgence in circumstances pressured the federal government to reimpose a contemporary spherical of partial lockdown measures, in line with knowledge by Malaysia’s well being ministry.
Authorities within the nation are testing all Prime Glove staff within the affected factories and dormitories for the coronavirus. Minister of Worldwide Commerce and Business Mohamed Azmin Ali instructed CNBC on Thursday that the federal government hopes to “mitigate this downside inside subsequent two weeks.”
“It is rather unlucky that lately, there (have been) some points by way of the optimistic circumstances recorded on the factories,” he instructed CNBC’s “Road Indicators Asia.”
Azmin identified that Prime Glove was considered one of firms allowed to proceed with full operations all through Malaysia’s lockdown, given its significance to each the native and world markets.
The corporate has seen a rise in demand for its merchandise on account of the pandemic. That contributed to a surge within the worth of its shares.
Shares of Prime Glove listed in Malaysia and Singapore dipped following bulletins of its manufacturing unit closures, however they’re nonetheless up by greater than 300% to this point this yr in each markets, knowledge by Refinitiv confirmed.
Prime Glove stated in a Wednesday assertion that some 5,700 of its staff have been examined for the virus, and screening of the remaining workers could also be accomplished by finish of this week.