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View all search resultsShelves are being stripped bare of toilet rolls, hand sanitizer and surgical masks everywhere from Japan to France to the United States as panic buying crisscrosses the globe with the coronavirus, defying repeated calls for calm and disrupting supply chains.
Panic buying has prompted a price surge for such items both online and offline in the last two days, with a box of face masks now selling for an average Rp 300,000 (US$ 21) – a whopping 1,500 percent increase from the original average of Rp 20,000 per box.