COVID-19 has caused an immense shortage of medical supplies -- specifically masks, gloves and protective suits. Various entrepreneurs have tried to lend a hand to combat this shortage.?
Some brands are building ventilators, while some are donating face masks. Everyone's trying to do something.
A few weeks ago, we saw gaming peripheral maker Razer joining the battle to fight this shortage. Razer co-founder and CEO, Min-Liang Tan, revealed in a Facebook post, that the¡¯ve been working on creating masks in their manufacturing facility to give to the world during this grave shortage.?
In this post, he mentioned his goal to make and donate over 1 million face masks to medical authorities across the globe. He also stated, ¡°This emergency conversion of some of our lines and donation of masks is the first step of many that Razer will take. We are committed to contributing our extra time, resources, effort and talent toward the fight against COVID-19.¡±
And it looks like his new mask manufacturing facility is fully operational.?
He recently shared a post on Facebook where he shared two images -- one with a Razer truck (outside the National Council of Social Service in Singapore) and a second one with boxes full of masks.?
With these images, he wrote, ¡°Team Razer did a supply drop of face masks to the National Council of Social Service in Singapore today!¡±
He further added, ¡°These are either from our converted manufacturing lines in China or masks we have procured/purchased for donations. Perhaps the next batch we drop off will be Made in Singapore face masks instead?¡±
This, however, isn¡¯t the first shipment. On March 30, he shared a post with a picture of a Razer employee donating a box full of masks to a company dubbed Bizlink who provide employment to the disabled.
He said, ¡°Bizlink helps people with disabilities gain employment and currently has about 250 vulnerable people with disabilities. They have been in need of face masks and our Razer Fintech CEO Li Meng Lee just did a speed run over to donate some masks!¡±