Malaysia now near 200,000 Covid-19 cases with latest addition of 4,094 infections,

https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2021/01/28/malaysia-now-near-200000-covid-19-cases-with-latest-addition-of-4094-infect/1944875

The cases is not slowing down. MCO total lock down looks like incoming 4th Feb.

Malaysia now near 200,000 Covid-19 cases with latest addition of 4,094 infections,

https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2021/01/28/malaysia-now-near-200000-covid-19-cases-with-latest-addition-of-4094-infect/1944875

The cases is not slowing down. MCO total lock down looks like incoming 4th Feb.

Hedge-fund legends lose billions to Reddit traders running amok

https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/hedgefund-legends-lose-billions...

very excited if all retail brethren make the same things happen here.

compared with Gamestop, our gloves sector very undervalued with almost guaranteed profit, big dividend payout, cash rich companies, and basically nothing like it in bursa.

why should we let IBs and foreign Funds like JPM to RSS and make most profitable gloves stocks loose values.

its time show them the power of RETAILERS UNITE

if rwallstreetbets could do it, so could we.

All, start using #gloveretailerunite hastags in ur social posting.

start the TSUNAMI guys!!! make the IBs sweat

Hedge-fund legends lose billions to Reddit traders running amok

https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/hedgefund-legends-lose-billions-reddit-traders-running-amok

very excited if all retail brethren make the same things happen here.

compared with Gamestop, our gloves sector very undervalued with almost guaranteed profit, big dividend payout, cash rich companies, and basically nothing like it in bursa.

why should we let IBs and foreign Funds like JPM to RSS and make most profitable gloves stocks loose values.

its time show them the power of RETAILERS UNITE

if rwallstreetbets could do it, so could we.

All, start using #gloveretailerunite hastags in ur social posting.

start the TSUNAMI guys!!! make the IBs sweat

letsdoit

US response to vaccination really bungled up

Exclusive: U.S. goal to squeeze more COVID shots from Pfizer vials hampered by syringe production

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-syringes-exclu/exclusive-u-s-goal-to-squeeze-more-covid-shots-from-pfizer-vials-hampered-by-syringe-production-idUSKBN29U1DL

(Reuters) - The world’s largest syringe maker does not have the capacity to substantially increase U.S. supplies of specialty syringes needed to squeeze more doses from Pfizer Inc COVID-19 vaccine vials in the coming weeks, an executive said in an interview.

if no full lockdown, the same will happen here like UK.

Anger and grief as United Kingdom's COVID-19 death toll nears 100,000

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-deaths/anger-and-grief-as-united-kingdoms-covid-19-death-toll-nears-100000-idUSKBN29U13M?il=0

LONDON (Reuters) - As the United Kingdom’s COVID-19 death toll approaches 100,000, grief-stricken relatives of the dead expressed anger at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the worst public health crisis in a century.
When the novel coronavirus, which first emerged in China in 2019, slid silently across the United Kingdom in March, Johnson initially said he was confident it could be sent packing in weeks.

But 97,939 deaths later, the United Kingdom has the world’s fifth worst official death toll - more than its civilian toll in World War Two and twice the number killed in the 1940-41 Blitz bombing campaign, although the total population was lower then.

Behind the numbers there is grief and anger.

Jamie Brown’s 65-year-old father died at the end of March after it was suspected he contracted COVID-19 while travelling on a train into London for work. At the time, the government was mulling a lockdown.

Told by medics to stay at home, he awoke days later with a tight chest, disorientated and nauseous, and was taken to hospital in an ambulance. He died from a cardiac arrest five minutes after arriving.

His son said the virus had damaged his lungs to the point where his heart gave up. He was a month away from retirement. “For me, it has been terrifying and harrowing to see everything that you hope for taken away. He will never be at my wedding; he will never meet any grandkids,” Brown told Reuters.

“Then, you watch the death toll rising whilst ministers pat themselves on the back and tell you what a good job they have done. It changes very quickly from a personal to a collective grief.”

Some scientists and opposition politicians say Johnson acted too slowly to stop the spread of the virus and then bungled both the government’s strategy and execution of its response.

Johnson has resisted calls for an inquiry into the handling of the crisis and ministers say that while they have not got everything right, they were making decisions at speed and have among the best global vaccination programmes.

The United Kingdom’s death toll - defined as those who die within 28 days of a positive test - rose to 97,939 on Jan. 24. The toll has risen by an average of over 1,000 per day for the past 7 days.

the recent showdown of gloves sector is really not surprising.

market has spoken quite clearly when it come to the confident on the health and economic of this country. today ALL SECTORS indices are RED, except for HEALTHCARE which comprising of gloves companies that show GREEN.

mismanaged of covid pandemic and political uncertainty play very important role to market positivity. both have failed to exert any confidence. horribly.

so, what does it has anything to do with gloves stock ?

compare to other sector, gloves are immune to this effect. it does not concern with what really happening here because the market for glove is the whole world. that is, it is very much needed during this pandemic by everyone.

where do you think is safe to park your money, if not in gloves.

cheap valuation, undervalued, and big funds is entering too.

angpau is coming thick and heavy !!!

Happy Hunting

i am watching the indices - ALL RED

only one Green.

Ur best guesss...HEALTHCARE

observe properly, gloves usage are no longer traditionally confined in hospital.
new customer that no one thought of.
- McD
- KFC
- Tesco
- Giant
- Supermarket/Mall
- Fast food
- Restaurant

not only in Msia though.

gloves are so undervalued.

The fact that the Gov did not deny the report and instead telling Eurocham to issue denial is proof of the matter. If Gov say no, but implement it later it will be akin to flip flop instruction. Looking at current MCO implementation, if the Gov maintain as it is the cases will not fall. People can literally travel inter district without any problem shows that current MCO is not really strict at all.

Hence, the chances of full lockdown is more likely to happen whether Eurocham leak the news or not because current MCO is just not working. Today cases still hovering above 3000. Anyone think that it will go down to double digit comes 4th Feb ? Big dream.

Not all manufacturing will be closed fully though. Those considered as essential will remain open. Some peeps say that Glove factory will be closed like any other manufacturing are just dumb as nuts. Glove is the main PPE in fight of this virus. Whole world needs it. And Gov also need the tax from these glove titans to fund the fight against the virus economic impact.

If gloves factory are asked to close, imagine the ASP, it will go up and glove makers will have even longer fulfilling order period to meet the backlog and new incoming order from USA. It will spill over 2023, just on back order alone already 500days++.

It will have potential repeat of V curve for two simple reason.
1. The share price down so much and is so cheap - based on EPS and also the fact the previous bonus split making it more affordable to own.
2. The gloves stellar performance and almost confirm profit and dividend payout is very attractive to fund manager and retailers alike.

Big ang pau coming CNY.

Happy hunting.

The fact that the Gov did not deny the report and instead telling Eurocham to issue denial is proof of the matter. If Gov say no, but implement it later it will be akin to flip flop instruction. Looking at current MCO implementation, if the Gov maintain as it is the cases will not fall. People can literally travel inter district without any problem shows that current MCO is not really strict at all.

Hence, the chances of full lockdown is more likely to happen whether Eurocham leak the news or not because current MCO is just not working. Today cases still hovering above 3000. Anyone think that it will go down to double digit comes 4th Feb ? Big dream.

Not all manufacturing will be closed fully though. Those considered as essential will remain open. Some peeps say that Glove factory will be closed like any other manufacturing are just dumb as nuts. Glove is the main PPE in fight of this virus. Whole world needs it. And Gov also need the tax from these glove titans to fund the fight against the virus economic impact.

If gloves factory are asked to close, imagine the ASP, it will go up and glove makers will have even longer fulfilling order period to meet the backlog and new incoming order from USA. It will spill over 2023, just on back order alone already 500days++.

It will have potential repeat of V curve for two simple reason.
1. The share price down so much and is so cheap - based on EPS and also the fact the previous bonus split making it more affordable to own.
2. The gloves stellar performance and almost confirm profit and dividend payout is very attractive to fund manager and retailers alike.

Big ang pau coming CNY.

Happy hunting.

The fact that the Gov did not deny the report and instead telling Eurocham to issue denial is proof of the matter. If Gov say no, but implement it later it will be akin to flip flop instruction. Looking at current MCO implementation, if the Gov maintain as it is the cases will not fall. People can literally travel inter district without any problem shows that current MCO is not really strict at all.

Hence, the chances of full lockdown is more likely to happen whether Eurocham leak the news or not because current MCO is just not working. Today cases still hovering above 3000. Anyone think that it will go down to double digit comes 4th Feb ? Big dream.

Not all manufacturing will be closed fully though. Those considered as essential will remain open. Some peeps say that Glove factory will be closed like any other manufacturing are just dumb as nuts. Glove is the main PPE in fight of this virus. Whole world needs it. And Gov also need the tax from these glove titans to fund the fight against the virus economic impact.

If gloves factory are asked to close, imagine the ASP, it will go up and glove makers will have even longer fulfilling order period to meet the backlog and new incoming order from USA. It will spill over 2023, just on back order alone already 500days++.

It will have potential repeat of V curve for two simple reason.
1. The share price down so much and is so cheap - based on EPS and also the fact the previous bonus split making it more affordable to own.
2. The gloves stellar performance and almost confirm profit and dividend payout is very attractive to fund manager and retailers alike.

Big ang pau coming CNY.

Happy hunting.

Govt warns it will impose full-scale lockdown if infections don't decrease — Eurocham

https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/government-launch-fullscale-lockdown-after-feb-4-if-infection-rates-do-not-decline-eurocham

Let this one sink in a bit...

1. what will happen to gloves sectors with this news out in the open.?
2. what will happen to other sectors i.e. manufacturing, oil and gas, hospitality, banking, construction, property etc...

yes, those already in glove are in for big angpau...again !!!

Govt warns it will impose full-scale lockdown if infections don't decrease — Eurocham

https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/government-launch-fullscale-lockdown-after-feb-4-if-infection-rates-do-not-decline-eurocham

Let this one sink in a bit...

1. what will happen to gloves sectors with this news out in the open.?
2. what will happen to other sectors i.e. manufacturing, oil and gas, hospitality, banking, construction, property etc...

yes, those already in glove are in for big angpau...again !!!

Next week gloves definitely will be too hot to handle.

Happy hunting

The pandemic in numbers
=======================

There have been 94.5 million cases of the novel coronavirus recorded worldwide, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. The official global death toll has surpassed more than 2 million people, but experts warn the real death toll is likely higher. Only confirmed Covid-19 deaths are included in the tally, which means that people who die without a firm diagnosis may not be included.

It took eight months for the world to record 1 million Covid-19 deaths, but the second million came in less than four months.

The pandemic has reached every corner of the globe, and only a few tiny, isolated nations have reported no deaths.

The US has recorded by far the highest total death toll in the world, with 395,851 dead, and more than 23.7 million cases.

In Brazil, more than 209,296 people have died. There have been more than 8.45 million cases recorded.

India has recorded 152,274 deaths, and more than 10.5 million cases.
Mexico has recorded 140,241 deaths and 1.63 million cases.

The United Kingdom, the worst hit country in Europe, has recorded 88,747 deaths and more than 3.36 million cases

Lots of peep talking about vaccination not using gloves.
I have been watching the video on the news, the nurses are using gloves.
Who would touch potentially covid carrier without gloves, would you?

watch this video:

https://us.cnn.com/2021/01/15/health/states-vaccinating-faster-west-virginia/index.html

Maybe that could be the reason why the shutting down manufacturing.

Italy Warns Pfizer on Supply Cut (3:03 p.m. NY)
Italy’s virus emergency czar Domenico Arcuri said Friday he’s warned Pfizer that it faces potential unspecified action for temporarily reducing shipments of its Covid-19 vaccine to Italy and other European countries.

“Today Pfizer unilaterally announced that starting from Monday it will deliver to our country about 29% fewer vaccine vials than the schedule it had shared,” Arcuri said in a statement demanding the restoration of the original allocation. Arcuri added that he “asked Pfizer to review its intentions and hopes not to be forced to have to otherwise protect the right to health of Italian citizens.”

Cases increases worldwide.
Vaccine not available in the states, basically lied to by US federal.
Pfizer shutting down manufacturing, delaying supply until Feb/March
Lock down and more lock down in Europe.
Grim 2 million death worldwide.

Not very good news for the world.

Colorado Governor Says States ‘Lied To’ on Vaccines (3:56 p.m. NY)

An incompetent, outgoing Trump administration “lied to” all of the nation’s governors about the existence of a Covid-19 vaccine reserve for second doses, contrary to statements this week by Vice President Mike Pence and other White House officials, the governor of Colorado said.

“My guess is it’s gross incompetence,” Jared Polis, a Democrat, said at a news Friday conference in Denver. “I’m not going to attribute the motive of vengeance. I am going to say gross incompetence, but I you know could err on the side of my optimistic human nature.”

Polis said the state anticipates receiving a combined 69,800 doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for next week, about the same as this week, though, the governor also estimates Colorado medical providers could safely stretch that supply to 77,950 shots.

L.A. Opens More Big Vaccination Venues (3:51 p.m. NY)
Los Angeles County said it would open five more large-scale Covid-19 vaccination sites, including ones at famed concert venue the Forum, Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park and the Pomona Fairplex, site of the county fair. The sites will each be able to accommodate about 4,000 people a day. They are in addition to the Dodger Stadium facility, which the county opened Friday.

Los Angeles, the nation’s most-populous county with some 10 million residents, is still working through the hundreds of thousands of health care and other essential workers set to receive the vaccine in the first tier of eligible people. The region has seen a surge recently with total cases since the pandemic began expected to top one million this weekend.

Italy Warns Pfizer on Supply Cut (3:03 p.m. NY)
Italy’s virus emergency czar Domenico Arcuri said Friday he’s warned Pfizer that it faces potential unspecified action for temporarily reducing shipments of its Covid-19 vaccine to Italy and other European countries.

“Today Pfizer unilaterally announced that starting from Monday it will deliver to our country about 29% fewer vaccine vials than the schedule it had shared,” Arcuri said in a statement demanding the restoration of the original allocation. Arcuri added that he “asked Pfizer to review its intentions and hopes not to be forced to have to otherwise protect the right to health of Italian citizens.”

Illinois Loosens Some Restrictions (2:45 p.m. NY)
Illinois eased restrictions on three regions following a sustained drop in Covid-19 hospitalizations and cases on Friday but most regions including Chicago still need to see more declines before mitigation measures are relaxed and activities such as indoor dining are allowed again, Governor J.B. Pritzker told reporters.

Pritzker had upped statewide restrictions starting a few days before Thanksgiving to curb a surge around the holidays. Certain regions have seen improvements and the statewide seven-day positivity rate also has fallen to 6.5% from 8.6% a month ago, according to Illinois Department of Public Health data.

The state will open up vaccination to those 65 and over as well as front-line essential workers on Jan. 25. Chicago and state officials on Friday also announced the first case in Illinois of the U.K. variant.

Apple to Close More Stores (2:30 p.m. NY)
Apple is closing more than 20 retail stores across Texas, Georgia and North Carolina after Covid-19 cases continued to spike in those states. The technology giant is also temporarily closing its stores in the Washington, D.C., area ahead of the Presidential inauguration next week.

The company closed more than 50 stores in California last month. Many in Utah, Tennessee, Arizona and South Carolina also remain closed. It has also shut several stores in London.

Oregon Governor Furious at Vaccine ‘Deception’ (2:20 p.m. NY)
Oregon Governor Kate Brown complained Monday that the federal government made false promises about increased shipments of vaccines -- shots that were to be given to the state’s teachers and people over 65.

“Last night, I received disturbing news,” she tweeted Friday. “States will not be receiving increased shipments of vaccines from the national stockpile next week, because there is no federal reserve of doses.”

N.J. Wants More Vaccines (2:10 p.m. NY)
New Jersey is receiving less than a fourth of the Covid-19 vaccines doses that it could be administering each week, according to state Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli.

The state could use 470,000 doses weekly, but expects about 100,000 -- 53,000 by Pfizer/BioNTech and 53,000 by Moderna, Persichilli said Friday at a virus press briefing. That’s about the same as it has been getting every week this month, she said.

gloves very attractive now. reason why i'm back to this sector.

vaccine news will no longer have material impact to the gloves valuation since it is already priced in.

price has been down too low. now the only way is up for gloves - SPMX.

-HAPPY HUNTING and have a nice weekend.

Although vaccine distributed, the COVID cases keep rising. and lock down around the world are damaging other sectors.

it actually gives clearer picture, gloves sector is and will ride the 3rd virus wave with better ASP and prolong earning.

I'm back in gloves.

If anything, gloves sector are undervalues.

Somewhere closer to home:

Covid-19: Cases hit a new record with 3,337 increase, bringing total to 147,855 (updated daily)

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020/03/23/covid-19-current-situation-in-malaysia-updated-daily

Seriously, read the news. the virus is not stopping even with vaccine has started been distributing.

Japan expands state of emergency and bans entry of foreign nationals as coronavirus as infections climb

https://us.cnn.com/2021/01/13/asia/japan-coronavirus-emergency-olympics-intl-hnk/index.html

More than 20,000 Chinese villagers moved to quarantine sites as a preventative measure

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-01-15-21/h_a1a1b78c8f72338ae2ce08a6cc098867

Brazil's health minister says healthcare collapsing in Amazonian city, hospitals full

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-01-15-21/h_ea2e92e0e4f117660657f5a099a33319

Germany becomes 10th country to surpass 2 million Covid-19 cases

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-01-15-21/h_3a447a2469cae4b1e2665491572c21cc

US reports more than 229,000 new Covid-19 cases

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-01-15-21/h_f162a1e588c825aed8d2076bb3d6b806

China reports another rise in new Covid-19 cases

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-01-15-21/h_84cde687c4d288923601a5847cf0bcd7

one thing that TG management has failed to do is to manage risk properly. the bigger the company, the more important for it to manage risk well. this failure actually bring bad reputation to gloves sector not only to TG.

a bit disappointed the way TG handle this. they should have expected it. when first infection happened, stringent SOP should have been followed. now, the whole world heard about 'deplorable' comment by the minister. whether its true or not, does not matter. damaged already done. with the previous track record of labors abuse and CBP fine, this latest news just make it more consistent that TG is not taking care of the employee welfare.

this is bad, must be rectified. shareholders should demand that TG to improve this. not repeating it for the 4th time. don't make excuse for them, why should shareholder defend this. its shareholder investment on the line. if it first time, ok. but this is keep repeating.

TG management can show as much picture they want, or informed us how many time dividend yield is going to be, or sale projection bla2. the share price will not go up if the sentiment around the company is bad. not a good thing for shareholder.

the biggest company has collapse before for failure to manage its risk, so if TG is not managing well, it could be one of them.

as said before, this temporary setback will have impact to TG earning next quarter. as unfortunate as what has happened, TG will not be spared of the negative impact. IB analyst are up in arms to update the target price and they have shown their hands too hastily, definitely they have invested big sums to not wanting the price to drop. can see how they scrambled to update their TG.

i believe in glove prospect, those who do so, should wait for the TG price to find new bottom. otherwise, other gloves counter should be the better option as they ride on this bad karma that happened to the biggest glove manufacturer.

TG is facing manpower shortage due to EMCO, while this is bad news for TG in term of loss of earning opportunity as TG will have to operate below capacity, this should be good news for other gloves counters.

at the moment when the world is facing gloves shortage, the largest in the world glove manufacturer has to reduce production. gloves price will definitely increase as demand vs supply is significantly become imbalance.

EMCO will last at least 4 weeks maybe more if the number increase today. so imagine within just a month the glove shortage will increase by 3 times as there are now in the US, UK, France, Europe facing the worst wave of coronavirus. Anybody can check now the dire situations in this countries. go to CNN and watch the numbers keep breaking new daily record. feel sorry for them, but as investor we make a move based on changing market environment.

most Glove counters are depressed now due to a slew of vaccine news. the news will fade away just like "Russian 1st in the world" vaccine news. good opportunity to accumulate other glove counters except TG.

HAPPY HUNTING

TG is facing manpower shortage due to EMCO, while this is bad news for TG in term of loss of earning opportunity as TG will have to operate below capacity, this should be good news for other gloves counters.

at the moment when the world is facing gloves shortage, the largest in the world glove manufacturer has to reduce production. gloves price will definitely increase as demand vs supply is significantly become imbalance.

EMCO will last at least 4 weeks maybe more if the number increase today. so imagine within just a month the glove shortage will increase by 3 times as there are now in the US, UK, France, Europe facing the worst wave of coronavirus. Anybody can check now the dire situations in this countries. go to CNN and watch the numbers keep breaking new daily record. feel sorry for them, but as investor we make a move based on changing market environment.

most Glove counters are depressed now due to a slew of vaccine news. the news will fade away just like "Russian 1st in the world" vaccine news. good opportunity to accumulate other glove counters except TG.

HAPPY HUNTING

TG is facing manpower shortage due to EMCO, while this is bad news for TG in term of loss of earning opportunity as TG will have to operate below capacity, this should be good news for other gloves counters.

at the moment when the world is facing gloves shortage, the largest in the world glove manufacturer has to reduce production. gloves price will definitely increase as demand vs supply is significantly become imbalance.

EMCO will last at least 4 weeks maybe more if the number increase today. so imagine within just a month the glove shortage will increase by 3 times as there are now in the US, UK, France, Europe facing the worst wave of coronavirus. Anybody can check now the dire situations in this countries. go to CNN and watch the numbers keep breaking new daily record. feel sorry for them, but as investor we make a move based on changing market environment.

most Glove counters are depressed now due to a slew of vaccine news. the news will fade away just like "Russian 1st in the world" vaccine news. good opportunity to accumulate other glove counters except TG.

HAPPY HUNTING

The much-hyped Hong Kong-Singapore 'travel bubble' is postponed amid Covid-19 spike

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/hk-singapore-travel-bubble-delay-intl-hnk/index.html

The highly-anticipated Hong Kong and Singapore "air travel bubble" was postponed Saturday -- less than 24 hours before it was due to launch.
The bubble would have allowed quarantine-free, air travel between the two Asian hubs. But a spike in coronavirus infections in Hong Kong means the arrangement will be postponed for two weeks, said Edward Yau, Hong Kong's secretary for commerce and economic development, at a press conference Saturday.

The virus isn't finished with us yet.

The much-hyped Hong Kong-Singapore 'travel bubble' is postponed amid Covid-19 spike

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/hk-singapore-travel-bubble-delay-intl-hnk/index.html

The highly-anticipated Hong Kong and Singapore "air travel bubble" was postponed Saturday -- less than 24 hours before it was due to launch.
The bubble would have allowed quarantine-free, air travel between the two Asian hubs. But a spike in coronavirus infections in Hong Kong means the arrangement will be postponed for two weeks, said Edward Yau, Hong Kong's secretary for commerce and economic development, at a press conference Saturday.

The virus isn't finished with us yet.

The much-hyped Hong Kong-Singapore 'travel bubble' is postponed amid Covid-19 spike

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/hk-singapore-travel-bubble-delay-intl-hnk/index.html

The highly-anticipated Hong Kong and Singapore "air travel bubble" was postponed Saturday -- less than 24 hours before it was due to launch.
The bubble would have allowed quarantine-free, air travel between the two Asian hubs. But a spike in coronavirus infections in Hong Kong means the arrangement will be postponed for two weeks, said Edward Yau, Hong Kong's secretary for commerce and economic development, at a press conference Saturday.

The virus isn't finished with us yet.

I like TG, but until the unfortunate situation of EMCO is lifted at their factory, other glove counters are in better position to absorb the loss of glove supply from TG and turned a better profit for next qr than TG.

This is exactly what have been said before. But now comes from our own respected and trusted DG should carry more weight on the matte

This is exactly what have been said before. But now comes from our own respected and trusted DG should carry more weight on the matte

Gloves sector is very much stronger coming next quarter.

New Straits Times: Covid-19 vaccine for Malaysia still a long way to go.
https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2020/11/643137/covid-19-vaccine-malaysia-still-long-way-go


Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said currently there were 10 companies claiming to have come close to finding a vaccine. However none had actually published their clinical trial data to be reviewed.

"Some companies such as Pfizer and Moderna claimed to have found a vaccine and that they had completed phase three of the clinical trial. But until now, these companies have yet to publish the data from the clinical trials.

"There are also media reports saying that Covid-19 vaccine has been found, but that alone is not enough to convince its effectiveness or safety," Dr Noor Hisham said during a Covid-19 briefing session with the media here today.

He said reports that Pfizer had submitted their vaccine discovery to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States on Friday for approval, was only for clinical interim analysis report.

"It is not the data from the clinical trial that they allegedly carried out," he said.

He was responding to a question on how soon a vaccine would be available for Malaysia and if three was any preferred vaccine producer for the country.

Meanwhile, deputy director-general of Health Dr Hishamshah Mohd Ibrahim said vaccine approval was not a simple process, as it needed to undergo various levels of testing and approval from multiple agencies.

"These companies have yet to provide data from their clinical trials, as required by the World Health Organisation and relevant authorities.

"There are several stages of testing and reviews which the vaccine must first pass, before it can be certified as an effective and safe to use vaccine," he said.

New Straits Times: Covid-19 vaccine for Malaysia still a long way to go.
https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2020/11/643137/covid-19-vaccine-malaysia-still-long-way-go


Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said currently there were 10 companies claiming to have come close to finding a vaccine. However none had actually published their clinical trial data to be reviewed.

"Some companies such as Pfizer and Moderna claimed to have found a vaccine and that they had completed phase three of the clinical trial. But until now, these companies have yet to publish the data from the clinical trials.

"There are also media reports saying that Covid-19 vaccine has been found, but that alone is not enough to convince its effectiveness or safety," Dr Noor Hisham said during a Covid-19 briefing session with the media here today.

He said reports that Pfizer had submitted their vaccine discovery to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States on Friday for approval, was only for clinical interim analysis report.

"It is not the data from the clinical trial that they allegedly carried out," he said.

He was responding to a question on how soon a vaccine would be available for Malaysia and if three was any preferred vaccine producer for the country.

Meanwhile, deputy director-general of Health Dr Hishamshah Mohd Ibrahim said vaccine approval was not a simple process, as it needed to undergo various levels of testing and approval from multiple agencies.

"These companies have yet to provide data from their clinical trials, as required by the World Health Organisation and relevant authorities.

"There are several stages of testing and reviews which the vaccine must first pass, before it can be certified as an effective and safe to use vaccine," he said.

This is exactly what have been said before. But now comes from our own respected and trusted DG should carry more weight on the matter.