State moves to prevent price gouging in sales of key essentials, including medical and hygiene products, toilet paper, hand sanitisers and facial masks
The government has gazetted regulations on the pricing of key goods and services during the coronavirus-induced national state of disaster.
Also included in the list are rice, sugar, long-life milk, bottled water, cooking oils, wheat flour, and canned and frozen vegetables.and announced sweeping measures to limit its spread, including a ban on a gatherings of more than 100 people and the closure of schools. During the national disaster period such price hikes are “unconscionable, unfair, unreasonable and unjust, and a supplier is prohibited from effecting such a price increase”.
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