China’s COVID-19 scare sparks run on flu medicines, test kits as far away as Australia

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The rising alarm over COVID-19 spreading in China was felt in pharmacies in Hong Kong, Macau, and in some neighborhoods in Australia, as people hunted for fever medicines and virus test kits to send to family and friends on the mainland. | Reuters

Chang Linyun, a 42-year-old mother in Beijing, said she tried to ask friends in Australia to buy fever medicine for her young son, as the drugstores were sold out, and traders who use social media and mobile apps to source and provide goods to customers, known as “daigou”, were charging too much.

In Box Hill, a suburb of Melbourne and home to one of Australia’s largest Chinese communities, a pharmacist said several drugstores had run out of Panadol. “I have friends in Beijing who asked me to send over some flu medicines and rapid tests. They just couldn’t get any in Beijing, they placed orders online, but nothing gets sent,” said a 30-year-old woman in Hong Kong surnamed Lo who was buying flu and anti-fever medicines and COVID tests to send to her friends.

 

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