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Global Shortage of Personal Protective Equipment amid COVID-19: Supply Chains, Bottlenecks, and Policy Implications

Event: Global Shortage of Personal Protective Equipment Amid COVID-19—Supply Chains, Bottlenecks, and Policy Implications

Global Shortage of Personal Protective Equipment amid COVID-19: Supply Chains, Bottlenecks, and Policy Implications

04 June 2020
Author / Speaker: 
Kijin Kim, ADB - Email the author | Other materials by the author

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This presentation discussed the unprecedented excess demand for PPEs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to domestic and international PPE supply chain disruptions and put frontline healthcare workers at risk. It also discussed various trade barriers to PPE supply, how governments ramped up PPE production, ADB's own response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as policy implications and lessons learned from path health crises.

Geographical Focus: 
Global
Regional - Asia
Type of Content: 
Learning Event

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