Reportedly with panic prevailing over coronavirus though only one new case has been confirmed in telangana in the south, there has been a sudden and heavy surge in the demand for surgical and N95 respiratory masks. In both bengaluru and hyderabad, the prices have gone up owing to the acute demand. In fact, in many places, the prices of surgical masks have more than doubled. Shops that used to earlier sell surgical masks for Rs 8-10 per piece are now selling them at Rs 20-25.

 

N95 respiratory masks, meanwhile, continue to be sold at anywhere between Rs 220 and Rs 250 per piece.Some of the pharmaceutical stores claim that there is a shortage of sterile masks due to the sudden demand. TNM checked with several surgical stores at Panjagutta, Ameerpet, madhapur and nampally in hyderabad, and most of them had run out of stock within a day after news of a hyderabad techie contracting coronavirus emerged. However, some dealers say that there is adequate stock but that the prices have been hiked due to the demand.

 

At the Apollo Medical Store outlets at Begumpet and srinagar colonies, the stores have run out of hand sanitisers. people are buying hand sanitisers in bulk. We have never run out of hand sanitisers before. We have placed an order, and the new stock will arrive tomorrow, the person-in-charge at one of the stores says. telangana health minister Eatala rajender on tuesday had said that they would look into the reported shortage of the sterile masks and sanitisers.

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