‘Chronic’ global shortage of virus protective gear ‘urgent threat’ | The Malaysian Insight

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‘Chronic’ global shortage of virus protective gear ‘urgent threat’

The WHO has shipped almost two million individual PPE items to 74 countries and is preparing to send a similar amount to a further 60 nations. – EPA pic, March 28, 2020.

THE dire lack of protective gear for health workers is proving an dire threat to attempts to beat back the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organisation warned yesterday. The WHO urged industrial powerhouse countries to ramp up production of personal protective equipment as the global body warned that the battle against the new coronavirus was only just beginning.

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