Lower face mask ceiling price to 80 sen, says ex-deputy minister

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Former domestic trade and consumer affairs deputy minister Chong Chieng Jen says the cost of production has normalised to pre Covid-19 times so the retail price should also be lower. FMTNews Facemask

Chong Chieng Jen says the poor and those with large families will have higher expenses if the ceiling price of a face mask is fixed at RM1.20.

Chong said the recently announced ceiling price of RM1.20 per face mask effective Aug 15 was still expensive. At the current rate, he said, a family of five with working parents and school going children would end up having to incur an additional RM150 a month in household expenses. “Since June this year, the global supply of face masks has adjusted sufficiently to cater to the increase in the demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

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