Footage shows medical staff in Malaysia making protective suits out of plastic rubbish bags due to a shortage of supplies.<br /><br />Workers had to wrap blue bags around they heads with a hole cut into them to look through. <br /><br />The lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) has driven hospitals to turn to garbage bags and cling wraps for protection against the Covid-19 coronavirus.<br /><br />PPE includes surgical caps, face shields, gloves, gowns, boot covers, and N95 masks, all of which are now hard to come by in Malaysia.<br /><br />The video was taken inside a hospital in Kuala Lumpur last week, where there are hundreds of COVID-19 patients being treated.<br /><br />Staff at the hospital said it was like ''going into a battlefield without weapons''.<br /><br />Malaysia has declared 1,624 cases of COVID-19 and 15 deaths since the outbreak began.
