PETALING JAYA: Top Glove has confirmed the death of one of its employees due to Covid-19, the first such death reported in the company so far.
Yamnarayan Chaudhary Tharu, a Nepali security guard who was working at Top Glove’s F13 factory in Meru, Klang for the past two years, died on Saturday at the Sungai Buloh Hospital.
Top Glove’s factories in Meru are the centre of the Teratai cluster in Selangor, which recorded five new cases yesterday. There are currently 5,450 cases linked to the cluster – most of them Top Glove employees.
“Top Glove offers our deepest sympathies and heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of the deceased and is working with the authorities for Mr Tharu’s burial arrangements,” the company said in a statement to FMT.
“Additionally, compassionate payment shall be made to the next of kin to ease the family’s financial burden.”
Top Glove said this was the first Covid-19 related death among its workers that had been reported to its human resources department.
At a media briefing last week, the company’s chairman Lim Wee Chai revealed more than 5,000 workers had tested positive for Covid-19 but had since been discharged and were fit to work.
Following the rise in infections among workers at the Top Glove factories, the government ordered the company to temporarily close its 28 factories in Meru. However, it was later revealed that some of its factories were still operating at a lower capacity.
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