UPDATE ON TOP GLOVE COVID-19 POSITIVE TEST CASES

Shah Alam, Thursday, 5 November 2020: Top Glove today confirms that 17 employees, less than 0.1% of the Group’s total workforce of 21,000 people, have tested positive for COVID-19 since January 2020.

These affected employees were asymptomatic and most of them did not have a fever. They were isolated following the swab test taken on Monday, 2 November 2020, and have since been admitted to hospital for treatment after their results came back positive.

Deep cleaning and thorough sanitisation of the affected factory, living quarters and company vehicles have been carried out in accordance with guidelines from the Ministry of Health. In tandem, contact tracing is underway and employees in close contact with the affected employees have been tested and put on home quarantine pending results. There is no impact on the operations of Top Glove.

We wish to reiterate that the safety and well-being of our employees and external partners are of utmost importance to us, and that we have implemented various SOPs to help curb the spread of this virus, including the registering of employees and visitors as well as temperature checks before being allowed to enter Top Glove’s premises; enforcing the usage of face masks for everyone within the Company’s premises; placement of markers for physical distancing; and the provision of hand sanitisers at various locations. For further information on our COVID-19 preventive measures, please visit https://www.topglove.com/social-Covid19-Prevention/

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About Top Glove Corporation Bhd

Top Glove Corporation Bhd is listed on the Bursa Malaysia Stock Exchange Main Board and Singapore Exchange Mainboard. It is also one of the component stocks of the MSCI Global Standard Index, FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI Index, FBM Top 100 Index, FBM Emas Index, FBM Hijrah Syariah Index, FBM Emas Syariah Index, FTSE4Good Bursa Malaysia Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) for Emerging Markets. Top Glove is currently the world’s largest manufacturer of gloves with an established corporate culture and good business direction of producing consistently high quality, cost efficient gloves. Top Glove has over 2,000 customers worldwide and exports to more than 195 countries.

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