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The Australian mask-makers working through the night as people are urged to cover up – SBS News
With Melbourne residents ordered to cover their faces due to a surge in coronavirus cases, and others advised to, small businesses are working around the clock to meet rising demand.
Amy and Marianne Buckley are more than mother and daughter – theyre a manufacturing team.
The pair run a childrens clothing business from a workshop in the garden of their home in the Melbourne suburb of Preston. During stage four lockdown, theyve also been burning the midnight oil to make face masks.
It’s been wild. It does feel a little bit like a wartime effort, Amy, 37, told SBS News.
Mums been sewing well into the night and our husbands have been busy pressing and snipping, as we have.
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