Over 33,000 benefited from UOB Malaysia's Covid-19 relief aid

UOB Malaysia CEO Wong Kim Choong said, “The bank saw a 120% increase in the number of individual, microenterprise and SME customers applying between June and September 2021."

KUALA LUMPUR: UOB Malaysia’s Covid-19 Relief Assistance1 has benefitted more than 33,000 individual, microenterprises and small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) customers since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In a statement on Monday, it said as at Sept 24, more than RM23.8bil worth of relief assistance have been extended to these customers to overcome the financial impact caused by the prolonged movement restrictions.