Fashion designers help produce PPE


Fashion meets passion: Jovian making PPE suits for the frontliners fighting Covid-19.

PETALING JAYA: Malaysian fashion designers have rallied to help overcome a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) after the Health Ministry warned that stockpiles are running out fast.

Fashion designer Datuk Datuk Jovian Mandagie said he was heartbroken when he read the news that some frontliners had to use raincoats and plastic garbage bags to protect themselves.

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