A worldwide condom shortage is looming, as one of the world’s largest manufacturers of the prophylactics has been idled due to the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters reports.
Malaysia’s Karex Bhd manufactures about 20 percent of the world’s condom supply, delivering them to brands such as Durex, as well as to public health agencies across the world, such as to Britain’s National Health Service or the United Nations’ Population Fund.
However, as the coronavirus pandemic spreads and workplaces across the world are shuttered in order to slow the transmission of the virus, only “essential” businesses and factories are allowed to keep operating. And in Malaysia, that means that Karex’ three factories in the country are now idle. Not a single condom has been produced in a week.
Already that’s led to a shortage of 100 million condoms around the globe, and it’s going to get worse before it gets better, says Karex’ Chief Executive Goh Miah Kiat.
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