BANYUWANGI - The outbreak of the Corona virus or Covid-19 which is widely broadcast in Indonesia has an immediate impact on the scarcity of masks and hand sanitizer in Banyuwangi.
Reported from TIMES Banyuwangi, People are busy hunting for masks and hand sanitizers at pharmacies and a number of shops that provide these two products.
Even, these two items are no longer found in a number of pharmacies and minimarkets, alias disappeared from a number of circulations.
“There are no masks for more than a month. But if the hand sanitizer is only about two weeks ago,” said Yuyun Wahyuni, manager of a mini market on Jalan Colonel Sugiono, Banyuwangi, Thursday (5/3/2020).
He mentions, Since the Corona outbreak, there has been a lot of news, His mini market is being attacked by many people. Even, every day many consumers buy masks and hand sanitizers.
To continue to meet the needs of the community's masks, he himself admitted that it was difficult to find him. So there is a stock vacancy because there is no response from the mask and hand sanitizer supplier as it is today.
“Every day someone buys. We ordered a long time ago, it's just that the stock at the collector is always not available,” he said.
Meanwhile, The same condition was also conveyed by the manager of the minimarket on Jalan Widuri. The shop no longer sells masks and hand sanitizers because they have been overrun by buyers.
“Long time no sir, It's said that there are no pharmacies either,” Linda said, a convenience store employee.
Similar, the pharmacy manager on Jalan Letkol Sugiono and Letkol Istiqlah also stated the same thing. Even, The pharmacy no longer sells both since the date 16 January 2020 then.
“The masks are all gone. For hand sanitizer, we had time to stock up from supermarkets that were still selling,” kata From that.
Field monitoring, as for retail masks that are sold by several sellers in Banyuwangi, for Rp 5 thousand.
But to get it is quite difficult, This is because, almost all shops selling masks have run out of stock after the news of the Corona Virus has spread widely.
