Shepparton Med-Con making nearly one million surgical masks a week to meet COVID-19 demand

Jamieson Murphy
Updated April 22 2020 - 2:58pm, first published 2:30pm
HELPING HAND: The need for masks was so desperate, the Department of Defence was called in to provide labour at Med-Con's manufacturing warehouse.
HELPING HAND: The need for masks was so desperate, the Department of Defence was called in to provide labour at Med-Con's manufacturing warehouse.

A REGIONAL Victorian business is leading the fight to restock the nation's dwindling medical supplies, manufacturing almost one million surgical masks a week.

Jamieson Murphy

Jamieson Murphy

News director

Newcastle Herald news director. Interested in any and all yarns. Whisper g'day mate to me at jamieson.murphy@austcommunitymedia.com.au

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