Face cover and hand sanitizers have become hot wares particularly in Nigeria's business city of Lagos. The super city this week recorded sub-Saharan Africa's first instance of the seething COVID-19 disease referred to famously as coronavirus.
An Italian who showed up in the nation aboard a Turkish Airlines flight was the patient who has since been isolated as authorities work to follow every single imaginable contact.
The privately-owned Cable paper detailed that numerous drug stores in Lagos had inflated the costs of the wares or reported having come up short on stock. Numerous individuals have just begun wearing face veils and utilizing sanitizers effectively.
Various occupants accused the drug stores from trying to profiteer from the circumstance by faking shortage of stock. Then again, a few drug specialists are insisting that stocks have run out as a result of a spike sought after beginning Friday.
Be that as it may, the Cable referred to a medical doctor in its report who said there was no need for individuals to crave for these wares. He said the response was anyway not out of the ordinary.
As indicated by Olusegun Bankole, of Alimosho General Hospital in Lagos, the individuals who have been affirmed to be contaminated with the infection just as well as those close to such people ought to be the ones using face masks, not the whole populace.
“I think we need more enlightenment. We have an index case in Nigeria but it hasn’t gotten to the stage where everybody needs to start wearing face masks all over the place. I think the people need to be more educated about the issue,” he told TheCable.
“It is people who have respiratory tract infections or who have been confirmed to have the virus that need face masks so as to prevent the spread to people around them. Those taking care of such people or staying close to them also need to wear face masks like to prevent the virus from getting into their respiratory system. But for the rest of us (Nigerians), I don’t think it is necessary.
“It hasn’t gotten to that stage in Nigeria, so this is just a panic buying. If you go to pharmaceuticals these days, you won’t even see sanitsers anymore and even where they are available, they are very expensive.
“It’s like a case of demand and supply in economics, when there is a sudden stampede or demand for a product or service, like we have for face masks now, naturally, some people will cash in on that and start making business out of it,” he stressed.
source: africanews.com
