It’s happening again, just like it did 3 years ago. You read about UT here first.
via scmp:
Tokyo shops limit cold medicine purchases as Chinese buyers empty stocks amid Covid-19 wave
Dispensaries in Tokyo are running low on cold antidotes as customers from China snap up supplies
A wave of infections is spreading across China after it abruptly abandoned its zero-Covid policy, triggering shortages of fever drugs
Japan
Pharmacies in Tokyo are imposing a purchase limit on cold medicines as customers from China have snapped up supplies amid a shortage of drugs following a spike in Covid-19 infections there.
Dispensaries in the Japanese capital say they are running low on cold antidotes, including the popular variety Pabron Gold A, because of depleting stocks.
Customers cannot buy more than one box at some shops, where they also have to present an empty carton from the shelf to the register to get the medication
A woman from eastern China’s Anhui province, who was on a business trip to Japan, told the Asahi newspaper that she had stocked up on boxes of drugs after scouring Chinese social media to see what was in demand in her country.
Medicine stocks are vanishing from pharmacy shelves in Singapore as worried Chinese nationals buy up supplies to send home to their loved ones
It’s sparked a debate on paracetamol’s abundance and the benefits of simply ‘drinking water and resting up’ – as some entrepreneurs seek to cash in
Tokyo shops limit cold medicine purchases as Chinese buyers empty stocks amid Covid-19 wave
Dispensaries in Tokyo are running low on cold antidotes as customers from China snap up supplies
A wave of infections is spreading across China after it abruptly abandoned its zero-Covid policy, triggering shortages of fever drugs
Pharmacies in Tokyo are imposing a purchase limit on cold medicines as customers from China have snapped up supplies amid a shortage of drugs following a spike in Covid-19 infections there.
Dispensaries in the Japanese capital say they are running low on cold antidotes, including the popular variety Pabron Gold A, because of depleting stocks.
Customers cannot buy more than one box at some shops, where they also have to present an empty carton from the shelf to the register to get the medication.
Singapore reacts to Chinese panic buying Panadol with grumbles, scorn: ‘it’s not an exotic medicine’
Medicine stocks are vanishing from pharmacy shelves in Singapore as worried Chinese nationals buy up supplies to send home to their loved ones
It’s sparked a debate on paracetamol’s abundance and the benefits of simply ‘drinking water and resting up’ – as some entrepreneurs seek to cash in
WeChat groups sharing tips on supplies, queues at courier firms and a shortage of Panadol – anxious Chinese nationals in Singapore are hoovering up medicines to help relatives back home as Covid-19 rips through the last major population on Earth shielded until now from the worst of the pandemic.
But as stock vanishes from shelves in Singapore’s pharmacies, some locals are grumbling at the sudden shortages of everyday medicines for a crisis that’s been a long time in the making and is unfolding far away.
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