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Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 15, 2020
COVID-19: What the law says about having to wear a mask when outside your home
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Singapore Everyone needs to wear a mask when they leave their place of residence, with very few exceptions. A woman wearing a mask is seen walking at Orchard Road, Singapore on Feb 3. (Photo: Gaya Chandramohan) 15 Apr 2020 11:17AM(Updated: 15 Apr 2020 11:20AM) Bookmark SINGAPORE: Anyone caught not wearing a mask when they leave
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 14, 2020
Pentagon awards contract for N-95 mask sterilisation at 60 sites
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WASHINGTON: The Pentagon awarded a US$400 million contract to Ohio-based non-profit research organisation Battelle so it can help to sterilise N-95 masks at 60 locations using concentrated hydrogen peroxide vapour. Battelle said on Friday it was awarded the contract by the Pentagon’s Defense Logistics Agency on behalf of the US Department of Health and Human
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 13, 2020
Police investigate man who reportedly slapped petrol station employee who asked him to wear a face mask
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SINGAPORE: The police are investigating a man who reportedly slapped a service attendant at a petrol station located along Jervois Road after she advised him to wear a face mask. Police were alerted to the incident on Sunday at about 5.50pm. Advertisement Advertisement The 55-year-old man is being investigated for voluntarily causing hurt, police said in a news
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 9, 2020
Man arrested for running face mask and hand sanitiser scams on Carousell and Facebook
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SINGAPORE: A 24-year-old man was arrested for his suspected involvement in a series of scams involving the sale of face masks and hand sanitisers, the police said on Thursday (Apr 9) in a news release. Between Mar 14 and Apr 8, police received several reports from people who were cheated by an online seller offering the products for
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 8, 2020
Germany caught up in mask fraud scheme
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BERLIN: Authorities in Germany have fallen victim to a multi-million-euro fraud involving masks much needed in the coronavirus pandemic, prosecutors said on Tuesday (Apr 7). North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state and one of the hardest hit, paid 14.7 million euros for some 10 million masks in March only to discover they did not exist,
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 7, 2020
Yes, wear a mask but when and why? Here’s what you need to know
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SINGAPORE: Wear a face mask if you’re out and about, that was Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s advice in a nationally televised address on Friday (Apr 3). Some cities dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak, such as Hong Kong, have long advocated this, but the World Health Organization (WHO) has discouraged people who are healthy from
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 4, 2020
False message circulating about bogus mask distributors robbing residents, warn police
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SINGAPORE: Text and audio messages circulating claiming there are people robbing residents under the pretext of distributing reusable masks as part of a new Government initiative are untrue, the police said in a Facebook post on Saturday (Apr 4). The message claims that residents would be made to try on masks believed to be doused
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 4, 2020
COVID-19: Safety measures in place for reusable mask distribution from Apr 5
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SINGAPORE: Several measures will be put in place as households gear up to collect reusable masks from Sunday (Apr 5) as part of efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 in Singapore. On Friday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the Government will no longer discourage people from wearing face masks and will be distributing reusable
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 1, 2020
Gaming firm Razer to set up face mask manufacturing line in Singapore amid COVID-19 shortage
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SINGAPORE: Singapore gaming company Razer announced plans on Wednesday (Apr 1) to set up an automated face mask manufacturing line within 30 days to produce “a couple of million certified masks” each month. Razer CEO Tan Min-Liang announced the plans on his Facebook page at about 9am, calling on Singaporeans or Singapore companies to buy
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 1, 2020
The Mask Middlemen: How pop-up brokers seek big paydays in a frenzied market
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REUTERS: Brian Kolfage, a Florida military veteran, recently convinced Americans to donate millions of dollars for a privately built wall on the US southern border. Now he has jumped into a new venture: hawking millions of protective face masks that are in critically short supply during the coronavirus pandemic. About a month ago, Kolfage formed a
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 27, 2020
‘Printing money’: Booming mask producers in China meet global demand
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BEIJING: As the coronavirus pandemic that originated in a central Chinese city has gone global, thousands of factories in China have nimbly turned to a new and very profitable market – face masks for export. At the height of China’s outbreak in early February, Guan Xunze’s company created a new mask factory in just eleven
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 25, 2020
As coronavirus explodes, world races to mask up
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ZURICH: Spiez Lab, a government-run institute in the Swiss mountains, was set up to protect the nation from nuclear, biological and chemical threats. “For a world without weapons of mass destruction,” runs its slogan. It is now fighting another global menace – the coronavirus – by providing face masks, the demand for which is growing
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 11, 2020
Taiwan inmates join COVID-19 fight with mask factory
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TAOYUAN: Behind the barbed wire-topped fences of Taipei Prison, a small group of inmates are hunched over clacking sewing machines, working overtime to churn out face masks amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Usually the men would be making prison uniforms in the bright-lit sewing factory in the city of Taoyuan. Advertisement Advertisement But after the coronavirus spread
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 7, 2020
4 people arrested over Carousell face mask scams
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SINGAPORE: Four people have been arrested after numerous reports of scams involving face masks sold on e-commerce platform Carousell, the police said in a news release on Saturday (Mar 7), as they warned the public to be especially vigilant during the COVID-19 outbreak. “Between January and February 2020, the police received many reports from persons
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