NSTworld: Authorities were questioning two people after the Tuesday evening raid at a warehouse in satellite city Tangerang, where nearly 600,000 surgical masks were found. coronavirus covid19 Indonesia
Authorities were questioning two people after the Tuesday evening raid at a warehouse in satellite city Tangerang, where nearly 600,000 surgical masks were found.“Mask prices have skyrocketed everywhere and there are shortages, most likely because hoarders are trying to make money at the public’s expense,” Jakarta police spokesman Yusri Yunus told AFP Wednesday.The warehouse raid came after hundreds of boxes of surgical masks were also seized Tuesday at a Jakarta apartment.
“My sales have more than doubled since Monday,” said Nur Hidayati, 29, a jamu seller in Bogor near Jakarta.On Monday, Indonesia confirmed its first coronavirus cases, saying a 64-year-old woman and her daughter, 31, tested positive.But Indonesia – a Southeast Asian archipelago of more than 260 million – had yet to report a confirmed case until this week.--AFP
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