SINGAPORE – Top manufacturing, the world’s largest medical glove manufacturer, has shut down 20 manufacturing sites in Malaysia after thousands of workers tested positive for Covid-19. As of Wednesday, a total of 2,684 top glove employees – most of them foreign workers – had tested positive, local media quoted senior …
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