Indonesia's daily infections hit a record 3,963. The nation also reports 135 more deaths. The country's totals now stand at 228,993 cases and 9,100 deaths.

Tomorrow is the beginning of another new wave of uptrend towards higher share price exceeding post bonus issue price of RM10.15 in anticipation of explosive quarterly result in mid-November est PAT RM800-900million.

Tomorrow RM9 barrier definitely will be penetrated within 1 hour of trading.Share price will increase at least 15-20% tomorrow.

Tomorrow both Top Glove and Supermax will break RM9 barrier.Another round of strong buying momentum tomorrow by both institutional investors and retail investors.

Tomorrow 9a.m opening price Supermax definitely gap up at least 20-30 sen.Another 8 weeks uptrend until quarterly result mid-November.

PETALING JAYA: Hartalega Holdings Bhd does not foresee any oversupply scenario of medical gloves in the next three years, despite the development of vaccine to combat Covid-19 pandemic, said its chairman Kuan Kam Hon.

He said the number of people affected by Covid-19 is only three per cent of the world's population, yet, the consumption of medical gloves has been growing tremendously over the past few months since the pandemic outbreak, which the company estimated to be around 130 billion to date.

"The demand will still be there as the standard operating procedures (SOP) in treating patients affected by Covid-19 has changed.

"Even with our target of an eight to 10 per cent production per year to meet organic growth in demand, with the exception of Covid-19, would not be able to meet this in the next three years time.

"If a vaccine is found, it just means that there is going to be a three per cent drop in demand," he told reporters after Hartalega's annual general meeting here today.

NEW DELHI: India's total coronavirus cases passed five million on Wednesday, health ministry data showed, as the pandemic extends its grip on the vast country at an ever-faster rate.

With its latest one million cases recorded in just 11 days, a world record, India now has 5.02 million infections. Only the United States has more, with 6.59 million.

India has for some time been recording the world's biggest daily jumps in cases, and on Wednesday, the rise was just over 90,000 with a record 1,290 deaths.

While India took 167 days to reach one million cases, the next million came in just 21 days, faster than the US and Brazil, according to the Times of India.

Iran recorded 2,705 new cases of the novel coronavirus Tuesday, its biggest one-day spike in more than a month, in a fresh and alarming spike in CODID-19 infections,

The number of infections jumped to 407,353 while fatalities stand at 23,453 with 140 new deaths announced by Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari.

Iran, one of the first countries in the region to report cases of the virus in February, has struggled to contain infections, as numbers continue to ebb and flow.

It has seen two waves of the virus as authorities struggle to enforce strict social distancing measures and other health protocols.

After a significant dip in infections and deaths in late August, the last few weeks have witnessed a sharp surge in cases and fatalities.

Iran reported 156 deaths Monday from the virus, the highest single-day figure since Aug. 18, when 168 deaths were reported.

New cases identified Tuesday were the highest single-day figures registered since Aug. 4, when 2,751 cases were reported.

Iranian Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raeesi, expressing concern about the new wave, said people went on out-station trips in the last few weeks, disregarding the ministry’s instructions.

He said cases have significantly increased in Tehran and major cities in the last two weeks. In Tehran, single-day cases jumped from 900 to 1,800.

Iran held large ceremonies late last month to mark Ashura – the day Moses saved the Israelites by leading them out of Egypt across the Red Sea.

There are eleven districts in India right now which have reported more than 1,000 deaths of people infected with novel coronavirus. Together, they account for more than 42 per cent of all coronavirus-related deaths in the country, which exceeds 80,000 now.

While most of that list of 11 districts comprise of usual suspects like Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and Pune, it also includes three relatively smaller urban centres from Maharashtra. Nagpur, Nashik and Jalgaon have all reported more than 1,000 deaths till now. Their presence in the list is not entirely unexpected though. Nashik and Nagpur figure towards the bottom of the top ten list of cities with maximum number of infected people. Jalgaon has much lesser caseload, but that too figures in the top 25 cities.

In fact, there are three more districts from Maharashtra that are now approaching 1,000 coronavirus-related deaths. Solapur, Kolhapur, and Raigad have all reported more than 900 deaths till now.

That’s not surprising considering the fact that Maharashtra accounts for almost 40 per cent of all coronavirus-related deaths in the country. At 2.82 per cent, the state’s case fatality ratio (CFR), which is the percentage of people dying out of all the confirmed cases, is one of the highest in the country. The state also reports the maximum number of deaths in the country every day.

In the last three weeks, from the time India has started reporting more than 70,000 new infections every day, over 20,000 deaths have been added to India’s death count. This is about 1,000 deaths a day. This number is likely to go up in the coming days as people succumbing to the disease now are those who mostly would have been infected two to three weeks earlier.

Mexico reported 4,771 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and 629 additional fatalities on Tuesday, bringing its totals to 676,487 infections and 71,678 deaths, according to updated Health Ministry data.

The government has said the real number of infected people is likely to be significantly higher than the confirmed cases.

BUENOS AIRES: Argentina's coronavirus "positive rate," the number of daily infections to the number of tests carried out, has topped 50 per cent, underscoring how much work the South American country has to do to bring the virus under control.

Health ministry data on Monday (Sep 14) showed the country carried out 17,955 tests the day before, when it recorded 9,056 confirmed COVID-19 cases. That indicates a positive rate of 50.4 per cent, one of the highest in the world.

Argentina, which was one of the region's success stories early on with a strict lockdown imposed in March, has seen infections soar in recent months, first gripping the capital Buenos Aires and surrounding areas and now spreading in the provinces.

The country, which has been trying to open its hard-hit economy, has a total of 555,537 confirmed cases, the tenth-highest case load in the world, with 11,412 fatalities.

The proportion of daily infections to tests had been between above 40 per cent since the start of August, but had not quite climbed above half before Sunday. Other countries in the region including Bolivia and Mexico also have sky-high positive rates.

Latin America is the region with the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths globally, which has pummeled the regional economy, pushing millions below the poverty line.

The Brazilian government announced on Tuesday that the number of daily deaths from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has tripled, with 1,113 deaths registered in the last 24 hours, while the number of new cases more than doubled, with 36,653 cases registered in the same period.

With these new fatalities, the death toll rose to 133,119, while the total number of cases rose to 4,382,263.

The state of Sao Paulo, the most populous in the country, has also been the most affected by the virus, with 901,271 cases and 32,963 deaths, followed by Rio de Janeiro, with 244,418 cases and 17,180 deaths.

Public health agency RIVM said that 1,379 more people tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus, the highest single-day total since the pandemic began. The three-day average for new Covid-19 hospitalizations also shot up to 16.7, with an average of 4.3 patients moved into intensive care each of the past three days.

It was the fifth straight day the Netherlands added over a thousand new coronavirus infections to its national statistics. The tally was 60 percent higher than the amount reported last Tuesday. Already this week, the RIVM has registered 2,679 new infections, a 52-percent increase over last week. The latest announcement pushed total known Dutch infections since late February to the 86 thousand mark.

“The upward trend continues with more than a thousand new cases per day,” said Aura Timen, who leads the National Center for Infectious Disease Control at the RIVM. “The patterns are similar: many young people become infected, students, people in their twenties: the virus easily spreads with them," she told newspaper AD.

Of over eight thousand coronavirus infections recorded last week, over 1,450 were linked to people in their early twenties, and 950 were tied to people in their late twenties. Another 800 infections were found in people aged 15-19.

There will be an extra 5,000 hospital beds in Wales to cope with any fresh waves of coronavirus, the Welsh government has announced. Welsh health minister Vaughan Gething said:

The position remains precarious. The challenges this winter will be truly extraordinary. We must be prepared for the worst.

The Welsh government’s winter protection plan, published on Tuesday, says 5,000 beds are available to ensure health boards are able to manage future waves of Covid-19 and any potential spike in emergency admissions.

This has been achieved by retaining a range of field hospitals, new hospital facilities and additional bed capacity created in existing hospital sites.

The government wants 75% of people at risk, such as those with clinical conditions, and health and social workers, to receive the flu vaccine. It has 160m PPE items in stock, with orders placed for more than 300 million further items.

UK records 3,105 more coronavirus cases as recent sharp increase maintained.Today’s count is 3,105, up from 2,621 yesterday. Today’s total is lower than was recorded at the end of last week, but it is still only the fourth time the daily total has been above 3,000 since the end of May. The recent trend - a sharp increase - is being maintained.

The UK has recorded 27 more coronavirus deaths. This is the highest daily recorded total for a week. It takes the headline total to 41,664, but this figure only records people who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus test, and so it significantly understates the true number of coronavirus deaths in the UK.

The daily total for Covid patients being admitted to hospital in England has now passed 150. On 13 September, the most recent day for which a figure is available, it was 153. The previous day it was 143. Only a week ago the numbers were in double figures. The total has not been as high as 150 since early July.The total number of coronavirus patients in hospital in England has now reached 866. That is the figure for 15 September, up from 782 the previous day. It has not been as high as this since late July.

Authorities in Bordeaux and Marseille have announced strict new measures to limit public gatherings in an effort to rein in a rapid surge in Covid-19 cases that risks overwhelming the two French cities’ hospitals.

“The virus has accelerated despite the obligation to wear a mask introduced earlier this summer,” Christophe Mirmand, the government’s top official in greater Marseille area, said on Monday. “We need to take action to ensure health services can cope.”

Admissions to the city’s intensive care units were following an “exponential curve” and had doubled in the past week, the head of the city’s hospital service said. Even with extra beds added over the weekend, the system was “close to saturation point”.

The director of Bordeaux’s main hospital said “all the warning signals are flashing red”. His hospital has 77 Covid patients, he said, of whom 24 are in intensive care, “a very rapid increase over the past 10 days”.

Marseille, with 195 cases per 100,00 inhabitants compared with a national average of 70, the capital, Paris, with 154, and the south-western city of Bordeaux, with 143, have emerged as France’s major virus hotspots, heightening fears of a second wave of the virus.

Spain broke two grim milestones on Tuesday, with coronavirus cases surging to beyond 600,000 and related deaths passing the 30,000 mark.

Over the past month, Spain has become the worst-affected European Union country in terms of confirmed cases. France, with the second-highest number of cases, reports around 387,000 infections.

In the last two weeks alone in Spain, health officials have diagnosed nearly 120,000 new infections, while the percentage of all tests coming back positive continues to rise.

The most recent weekly data shows nearly 13% of all tests taken in Spain are coming back positive – suggesting a growing number of cases are going undetected.

New deaths are also accelerating, with the Health Ministry reporting 156 more deaths on Tuesday than on Monday, bringing the confirmed total to 30,004.

Hospitals are also increasingly full, with a second-wave record of 1,229 COVID-19 patients being admitted in the last 24 hours alone.

Hundreds of doctors in the capital Madrid, where 21% of hospital beds now hold those suffering from the infectious disease, stopped work for a few minutes around noon on Tuesday to call for better working conditions and to highlight the “collapse of primary care.”

Meanwhile, around 17,000 educational workers in the Basque Country took part in a general strike that coincided with the first day of high school.

According to the UGT union, 70% of all teachers, janitors, lunchroom staff, and more participated in the call for safer conditions for themselves and the students.

Various unions called the strike to demand smaller class sizes, more staff, protective equipment, and several other measures to help parents and students adapt to the pandemic situation.

The strike was for one day, but the unions say they will continue if their needs are not met.

Just buy and hold coz Supermax will announce billions of profits next year.As investor we all know current price is undervalue not worthy to sell since target price is still far away.

Happy Malaysia Day...Get ready for new bull wave starting Thursday until next quarterly result announcement mid-November follows by company AGM to declare ex-date of 1 treasury share for every 45 ordinary shares.

Glove companies very good prospect.Top Glove chairman said waiting time for glove delivery increases up to 600 days(20 months) compares to pre-Covid 19 30 days(1 month).Very high share price upside until next year especially Supermax and Top Glove.

Hartalega will lead other glove counters to positive territory today.Positive news from Hartalega AGM today

Just rotational glove counters play.Hartalega and Kossan up today to compensate yesterday mild increase

MANILA: Experts described as dangerous and premature on Monday (Sep 14) the Philippines' decision to cut the social distancing minimum to 30cm on public transport, as the country saw another daily record in newly confirmed COVID-19 deaths.

Reducing gaps between passengers incrementally to a third of the 1 metre minimum could backfire, experts and medical professionals warned, and prolong a first wave of infections that the Philippines has been battling since March.

The new rules took effect on Monday, when the country reported 259 new confirmed deaths, a record for the second time in three days. Total fatalities increased to 4,630, while infections have doubled in the past 35 days to 265,888, Southeast Asia's highest number.

AstraZeneca’s U.S. vaccine trial will be on hold until at least midweek, pending an investigation into an adverse event in the U.K., Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources.

The company has already restarted its U.K. tests, Reuters reports, after trials were paused globally following a reported incident of a severe neurological condition in one of the trial participants.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and a safety panel are investigating the incident, according to the report. —Sara Salinas

Treasury shares ex date will be announced during company AGM in November.

Glove share counters are immune to vaccine news as none of the vaccines are proven truly safe and effective against Covid-19.This superbug will not easily be eliminated and disappeared from earth.

Airlines and oil and gas sectors are most impacted by Covid-19.There are many other sectors that are more worthwhile to invest and make profits.

Israel to impose second lockdown as coronavirus cases surge.Israel will enter a three-week nationwide lockdown, starting Friday, to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus after a second-wave surge in new cases.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced the lockdown ahead of the Jewish holiday season, which starts with the Jewish New Year on September 18 and ends with the Tabernacles holiday on October 9.

"Our goal is to stop the increase, to reduce the contagion," he said.

Last week, the daily rate of new COVID-19 cases crossed 4,000 for the first time since the pandemic reached the country in February, prompting the second lockdown.

Media will stay hibernate until coming 3rd QR end November.Expecting profitable quarterly result.

Local and foreign institutional funds plus retail investors all come together in one massive force to push Supermax to new highs due to single digit forward PE 2021 current RM9 share price.

WHO: Oct, Nov to be 'tougher' with more coronavirus deaths
By AFP - September 14, 2020 4:07pm

The World Health Organization expects Europe to see a rise in the daily number of Covid-19 deaths in October and November, the head of the body's European branch told AFP on Monday.

"It's going to get tougher. In October, November, we are going to see more mortality," WHO Europe director Hans Kluge said, as the continent currently experiences a surge of cases though the number of deaths has remained relatively stable.

The resurgence is however expected to lead to an increase in daily deaths, the WHO said.

"It's a moment where countries don't want to hear this bad news, and I understand," Kluge told AFP in an interview, stressing that he wanted to send the "positive message" that the pandemic "is going to finish, at one moment or another."

'No evidence' people with coronavirus are immunised

The WHO Europe's 55 member states are holding an online meeting on Monday and Tuesday to discuss their response to the new coronavirus and agree on their overall five-year strategy.

However Kluge, based in Copenhagen, raised a warning finger to those who believe that the development of a vaccine will bring an end to the pandemic.

"I hear the whole time: 'the vaccine is going to be the end of the pandemic'. Of course not!," the Belgian said.

"We don't even know if the vaccine is going to help all population groups. We are getting some signs now that it will help for one group and not for the other," he said.

"And then if we have to order different vaccines, what a logistical nightmare!"

"The end of the pandemic is the moment that we as a community are going to learn how to live with this pandemic. And it depends on us and that's a very positive message," he said.

The number of cases in Europe has risen sharply in recent weeks, especially in Spain and France. On Friday alone, more than 51,000 new cases were reported in the 55 countries of the WHO Europe, which is more than the highest peak in April, according to the organisation.

Meanwhile, the number of daily deaths has remained at around the same level since early June, with around 400-500 deaths per day linked to Covid-19, WHO data showed.

Monday 14 September 5.03pm - Indonesia reports 3,141 new coronavirus infections, 118 deaths

Airasia share price will not move much pending rights issue exercise Nov/Dec this year.Better invest in other good fundamental stocks.Airlines business recovery to profitable business earliest 2022.

Wednesday is Malaysia Day no stock trading.Share price on upward trends towards new all time highs soon expecting explosive net profit coming QR in early November.

Coronavirus cases are growing in 11 U.S. states as Fauci warns of ‘disturbing’ data
PUBLISHED SUN, SEP 13 2020 4:30 PM EDT
Covid-19 cases were growing by 5% or more, based on a weekly average to smooth out daily reporting, in 11 states as of Sunday, according to a CNBC analysis of data collected by Johns Hopkins University, an increase from eight states on Friday.
The states were Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Wisconsin hit a record high in its average of daily new cases, reporting 1,353 new infections, a roughly 32% increase from a week ago.

Philippines reports 4,699 new COVID-19 cases with record 259 deaths.
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health recorded 4,699 new coronavirus cases Monday, taking the total number of infections to more than 265,000.

The country’s confirmed COVID-19 cases rose to 265,888, the highest in Southeast Asia despite enforcing the longest lockdown in the region.

LIVE updates: COVID-19 and extended quarantine in the Philippines
Of the newly-reported cases, nearly 32% were from Metro Manila (1,498), followed by Cavite (221), Bataan (198), Bulacan (185) and Batangas (176).

Eighty-seven percent of the new cases occurred in the last two weeks.

The death toll reached 4,630 after 259 more patients succumbed to COVID-19. Twenty-eight of the additional fatalities happened in September, 110 in August, 97 in July and 22 in June.

Almost 60% of the newly-announced fatalities were from Metro Manila, while 21% were from Central Visyas.

Large foreign funds strong momentum pushing Supermax share after Europeans market open around 3.30p.m today.Need to rebalance their portfolio buying Supermax which is one of new constituents MSCI Global Index.

Europe equity markets just start morning trading now.Europe fund managers and institutional investors starting to buy heavily Supermax share now.

Promote buy call to Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger as Supermax is very undervalue company with billions of cash and excellent management.

Local pension funds e.g EPF and KWAP will soon become substantial shareholder of Supermax with total shareholding >5%

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2020/09/14/who-reports-record-one-day-increase-in-global-coronavirus-cases-up-over-307000 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization reported a record one-day increase in global coronavirus cases on Sunday, with the total rising by 307,930 in 24 hours.

The biggest increases were from India, the United States and Brazil, according to the agency's website. Deaths rose by 5,537 to a total of 917,417.

India reported 94,372 new cases, followed by the United States with 45,523 new infections and Brazil with 43,718.

Both the United States and India each reported over 1,000 new deaths and Brazil reported 874 lives lost in the past 24 hours.

The previous WHO record for new cases was 306,857 on Sept. 6. The agency reported a record 12,430 deaths on April 17.

India leads the world in new cases reported each day and set a global record last week with 97,570 cases reported in a single day, according to a Reuters tally.

In some parts of India, medical oxygen is becoming hard to find as total cases exceed 4.75 million. Only the United States has recorded more cases at 6.5 million.

COVID-19 infections are still rising in 58 countries, including surges in Argentina, Indonesia, Morocco, Spain and Ukraine, according to a Reuters analysis.

Large local institutional funds e.g EPF,PNB,KWAP will invest heavily in glove stocks for capital gains and dividends as top 4 glove companies will post billions of profits

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates said its daily novel coronavirus cases hit an all-time high of 1,007 on Saturday, exceeding the levels they reached at the last peak in May.

Authorities sounded the alarm earlier in the week when daily cases jumped five-fold compared with a month ago, and warned residents and citizens to abide by measures designed to curb the disease.

Jakarta returns to lockdown amidst Covid-19 spike
By New Straits Times
September 13, 2020 @ 10:27am

NEW DELHI: India has recorded more than 1 million Covid-19 infections in the first 12 days of September amid an unprecedented surge of the pandemic in the country. The country has also reported 13,082 deaths during this period, the highest toll from the virus recorded in any country so far this month.

US withold nitrile glove shipments of Top Glove will open up more orders for other glove companies e.g Hartalega,Supermax and Kossan. Supermax has own distribution centres in every major cities in US.

Covid-19 worldwide new cases reach all time high of 310,000 cases yesterday and continue its uptrend to reach peak cases during winter season starting November.By that time US and Europe daily cases will be extremely high with devastating death tolls.

CNN news-An influential model is predicting a catastrophic winter with a significant rise in coronavirus deaths.

A possible scenario sees 415,090 Covid-19 deaths by January, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington says in its latest forecast. The worst-case scenario is 600,000 deaths by January 1.

"When we look ahead into the winter with seasonality kicking in, people becoming clearly less vigilant, you know mask use is down, mobility is up in the nation, you put all those together and we look like we're going to have a very deadly December ahead of us in terms of toll of coronavirus," IHME director Dr. Christopher Murray told CNN's Anderson Cooper.

Bullish prospect for glove companies as Covid-19 cases worldwide and deaths in upward trends towards deadly winter season Nov-Mar. US could see a 'very deadly December' with tens of thousands of coronavirus death to come, computer model predicts-CNN news yesterday night

Strong buying glove shares next week. Fauci concerned about current U.S. trends; universities become the latest hotspots-CNBC news yesterday night