Reuters details how lockdown upending medical glove supply chain amidst virus fight

Reuters detailed how a month-long lockdown in Malaysia has upended the supply chain for disposable rubber gloves and threatens to hamstring hospitals worldwide in the global fight against the new coronavirus. Three of every five gloves globally are made in Malaysia, but a supplier shutdown has left the world’s biggest maker of medical gloves by volume, Top Glove Corp, with only two weeks’ worth of boxes in which to ship them