Indonesia seizes half a million virus masks amid panic buying
Major cities including Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney have also seen panic buying of protective masks sparked by Covid-19. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, March 4, 2020.
INDONESIAN police seized over half a million face masks from a Jakarta-area warehouse after the country’s first confirmed cases of coronavirus sparked panic buying and sent prices for prevention products skyrocketing. Authorities were questioning two people after yesterday evening’s raid at a warehouse in satellite city Tangerang, where nearly 600,000 surgical masks were found.
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