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INAE speaks out against price speculation in coronavirus prevention products
2:24 CAT | 18 Mar 2020
File photo: Rádio Moçambique
The National Inspectorate of Economic Activities (INAE) says it is seeing price speculation in hygiene products used to prevent the spread of coronavirus, a pandemic that emerged in China last December and has already spread to more than 160 countries, including neighbouring South Africa, eSwatini and Tanzania.
Speaking this Tuesday in her usual weekly press briefing, INAE spokeswoman Virgínia Muianga said that her team had noted price speculation in hand hygiene products such as sanitisers and alcohol, and protective products like masks and gloves. Demand had jumped since the authorities warned of the possibility of the disease spreading to Mozambique, and these products were already starting to become scarce, she noted.
Muianga said price speculation was being controlled, and would cover all essential products, even where there was high demand.
Muianga also said that the INAE was working with restaurants regarding personal hygiene, urging them to grant any worker displaying flu symptoms sick leave, and mentioned that the INAE was developing ways of ensuring supermarkets periodically disinfect shopping trolleys to minimise the risk of contamination.
In workplaces, it was important that workers avoided exchanging objects such as telephones and other equipment, keeping them for personal use only, she explained, and her department was urging day-care centres to observe strict hygiene in places where children sleep.
Muianga also reported that INAE teams had, between January and March, seized 345 free distribution school textbooks found on sale in informal markets.
By Marta Afonso
Source: Carta de Moçambique
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