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KUWAIT, March 1 (KUNA) -- The Public Authority for Industry announced forming an emergency team tasked with meeting the markets demand on medical masks and sanitizers to fight the coronavirus.
The authority is cooperating with factories to provide Kuwaitis and expats with their needs of masks and other means of preventing the spread of the virus, said the authority's Director General Abdulkareem Taqi in a press statement on Sunday, after an urgent meeting with Minister of Commerce and Industry Khaled Al-Rodhan.
The meeting discussed boosting work at factories to meet the growing demand on masks and sanitizers, he noted. (end)
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