Malaysia will procure an additional 12.8 million doses of coronavirus vaccine jointly developed by Pfizer and BioNTech in a bid to ramp up its immunisation programme, science minister Khairy Jamaluddin said on Thursday.
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 17 (Reuters) - Malaysia on Monday reported 45 new COVID-19 deaths, its highest daily fatality number so far.
The health ministry also recorded 4,446 new coronavirus cases, raising the total number of infections to 474,556 with 1,947 deaths. Malaysia has recorded the third highest number of infections in Southeast Asia behind Indonesia and the Philippines. (Reporting by Rozanna Latiff; Editing by Martin Petty)
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 10 (Reuters) - Hartalega Holdings Bhd , Malaysia’s second-biggest maker of rubber gloves, said it plans to spend 7 billion ringgit ($1.7 billion) to build 16 new manufacturing facilities over the next 20 years.
The coronavirus pandemic has led to soaring demand and a jump in prices for medical and other types of rubber and synthetic gloves worldwide.
Hartalega, which currently has 12 plants, aims to increase annual production capacity to 95 billion gloves by 2027 from 43 billion now, it said in a statement.
By comparison, domestic rival Top Glove Corp, the world’s biggest maker of medical gloves, manufactures 93 billion gloves annually. This week Top Glove reported a fourth consecutive quarter of record profit, noting profit achieved for the first half of the current financial year exceeded its total profit for the past 20 years.