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ASIA’S BIG SHIFT

However, from March, Chinese PPE exports rebounded as the virus spread west. China was able to meet these orders with help from many garment manufacturers, in a bid to answer mounting calls from other countries for tighter quality control of PPE.A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment speaks to a resident about the coronavirus disease at a check up camp in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, Mumbai, India, June 7, 2020.

Meanwhile, India is now the second largest PPE producer after China, having only started making this equipment earlier in the year. India was manufacturing 450,000 PPE suits a day in May, and aiming to hit 2 million by the end of June.While Indian production has so far only targeted the domestic market, the government has just announced it will soon allow the export of 5 million PPE suits a month.

With a population of well over a billion, and around 37,000 public health facilities, India needs a staggering quantity of PPE as the pandemic worsens. As it emerges from a tough lockdown that still threatens an economic crisis, the country should arguably make PPE for all workers in sectors that need to reopen, such as agriculture.

In Malaysia, there are media reports of Nepali migrant workers in rubber glove factories being subjected to severe abuse.

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