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Donors, Volunteers Step Up to Help One of Malaysia's Worst-Hit Areas

Dave Grunebaum

   SHAH ALAM, MALAYSIA - In Malaysia, volunteers are collecting donations
   to help a part of the country that has been hit hard by COVID-19.

   At a storage site, volunteers tape and stack boxes of donated food and
   personal protective equipment, or PPE, from face shields to sardines.

   It is being sent from Malaysia's biggest metropolitan area to one of
   its most remote -- Semporna, which has seen a surge in COVID-19 cases
   in recent weeks.

   Thousands of people are under lockdown, and some live in communities
   that can be reached only by boat.

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