{"id":16452,"date":"2020-03-28T01:27:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/27\/global-condom-shortage-coronavirus-shuts-down-production"},"modified":"2020-03-28T01:27:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:27:04","slug":"global-condom-shortage-looms-as-coronavirus-shuts-down-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16452","title":{"rendered":"Global condom shortage looms as coronavirus shuts down production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s biggest producer says lockdown has already caused shortfall of 100m condoms<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A global shortage of condoms is looming, the world\u2019s biggest producer has said, after a coronavirus lockdown forced it to shut down production.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia\u2019s Karex Bhd makes one in every five condoms globally. It has not produced a single condom in its three Malaysian factories for more than a week because of a lockdown imposed by the government to halt the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/27\/global-condom-shortage-coronavirus-shuts-down-production\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s biggest producer says lockdown has already caused shortfall of 100m condomsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA global shortage of condoms is looming, the world\u2019s biggest producer has said, after a coronavirus lockdown &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,78,70,1289,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-life-and-style","category-malaysia","category-sex","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16453,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16452\/revisions\/16453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}