Pharmacies and supermarkets in Asian nations are selling out of painkillers and antivirals, as people stock up to send supplies to China.
| A tsunami of coronavirus infections in China is causing shortages of key drugs across the region as relatives and friends living overseas ship painkillers and antivirals from abroad, driving up prices and forcing some stores to cap purchases.
“We’re worried that Taiwanese people who work in China or have Chinese spouses will hoard and send antipyretics back,” Huang Chin Shun, chairman of the Taiwan Pharmacists Association, said in an interview. Just like the Taipei pharmacy, other outlets in the region such as Singapore supermarket FairPrice and Hong Kong pharmacy chains Watsons and Mannings are responding to the buying spree by imposing purchase limits on Panadol and Nurofen.
Relatives gather to say goodbye to a family member who died of COVID at a hospital in Bazhou in northern China’s Hebei province.For those lucky enough to lay their hands on dwindling supplies, logistics is proving to be a hurdle.
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