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Corporate South Africa joins government’s fight against COVID-19
According to Trumod, alternative building methods provide a solution that can epitomise South Africa’s response to this pandemic. (Image source: Trumod)
Corporate South Africa and the government have teamed up to address the country’s COVID-19 situation and make sure that the most vulnerable section of the society are not left to fight this pandemic
CACOVID orders supplies for 400,000 COVID-19 tests kits for Nigeria

No less than 1.7mn households would benefit from its food relief package as well. (Image source: Photo RNW.org/Flickr)
The private sector-led coalition against COVID-19 (CACOVID) has ordered for 250,000 supplies for tests and another 150,000 extraction kits to fast-track molecular testing for the deadly coronavirus
World Bank approves financial aid for COVID-19 response in Malawi

The plan aims to equip treatment centres, quarantine units and train the health workers and rapid-response teams. (Image source: nchenga/Flickr)
The World Bank has approved US$7mn to support Malawi’s response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, under the Malawi COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness project
Ethydco awards Saipem Egypt’s first polybutadiene plant

Saipem will contribute its major competencies as a leading solutions provider in the petrochemical sector, specifically in the elastomers segment. (Image source: SatyaPrem/Pixabay)
Saipem, one of the leading a consortium with Egypt-based Petrojet, has been awarded a contract by Egyptian Ethylene & Derivatives Co (Ethydco) for the first polybutadiene-producing facility in Egypt, with an expected production capacity of 36,000 MT per year