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HONG KONG, Feb 21 ― Responding to shortages of face masks amid a frightening coronavirus epidemic spreading from the mainland, a group of citizens in Hong Kong have set up a surgical face mask factory to ease supplies and deter price gouging in some stores. After Hong Kong reported its first case...

Friday, 21 Feb 2020 03:08 PM MYT

After Hong Kong reported its first case of the virus last month, panicky residents queued at dawn, waiting for pharmacies to open to buy masks and sanitary wipes. “So I thought, making a mask isn't that hard, just some fabric sewn together, how about I make my own factory?”

 

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govsingapore Singapore should provide incentives to business people to set up factories making face masks in Singapore. It should be a strategic policy.

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