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Saudi's SABIC helps India fight Covid-19 with 150,000 kits and PPEs a day

Development comes at a time when India has surpassed China in Covid-19 count, becoming the 11th most infected country. ICMR announced a target of 100,000 tests across the country per day

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The company said it has been able to meet the material standards to ensure quality products made domestically for India.

Peerzada Abrar Bengaluru
Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC), the world’s third-largest chemical company, said that it is helping India to fight Coronavirus pandemic by enabling domestic production of about 150,000 protective essentials and testing items per day. These include Covid-19 test kits, face shields, goggles, gloves, surgical masks and gowns.

The development comes at a time when India has surpassed China in terms of confirmed Covid-19 cases with over 86,000 coronavirus positive cases as of Saturday, becoming the 11th most infected country. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) recently said that it has set a target of carrying out around 100,000 tests across

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