JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Around 60,000 surgical masks confiscated from hoarders will be sold to the public, the North Jakarta Police said on Thursday (March 5).
North Jakarta Police chief Sr Comr Budhi Herdi Susianto said that the masks would be more useful if they were sold to the public rather than kept as evidence, especially given the public’s fears about the spread of Covid-19.
Budhi said that the masks would, under the supervision of the police, be sold by the two people suspected of stockpiling them. The two have been told to sell the masks at regular prices.He said everybody was welcome to buy the masks, but each buyer was limited to a maximum of 10 boxes. Panic buying has prompted a price surge for such items both online and offline in recent days, with a box of face masks now selling for an average of Rp300,000 – a whopping 1,500 per cent increase from the original average of Rp20,000 per box.
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