The board of directors of Golden Throat Holdings Group Company Limited announced that, based on a preliminary assessment of the latest unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of the Group and other information currently available to the Board, the Group expects to record a decrease of approximately 65% in the profit for the six months ended 30 June 2020 as compared with the corresponding period in 2019. Such decrease in profit was primarily due to a decrease in the sales of the Group in the first half of 2020, as a result of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which led to a decline in customer flow in general in retail outlets, such as pharmacies and supermarkets.