Responding to shortages of face masks amid a frightening coronavirus epidemic sp...
HONG KONG - Responding to shortages of face masks amid a frightening coronavirus epidemic spreading from the mainland, a group of citizens in Hong Kong have set up a surgical face mask factory to ease supplies and deter price gouging in some stores.
After Hong Kong reported its first case of the virus last month, panicky residents queued at dawn, waiting for pharmacies to open to buy masks and sanitary wipes. “I got angry looking for masks, they’re either all sold out, or the masks that are from overseas are sold at an inflated price,” Tang said, wearing a mask, at the factory set up close to the border with the mainland.
Tang and his financial backers paid $150,000 to import a machine from a factory near Chennai, in India. It makes 100,000 masks per day, and Tan hopes to have eight machines running by April.
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