Beijing drug store fined over mask prices

Updated January 29 2020 - 3:08pm, first published 3:01pm
Chinese regulators have handed a hefty fine to a Beijing store for raising the price of face masks.
Chinese regulators have handed a hefty fine to a Beijing store for raising the price of face masks.

A drugstore in the Chinese capital has been be fined 3 million yuan ($A642,000) for hiking the price of masks by almost six times the online rate amid a spreading virus outbreak, the Beijing municipal market regulator says.

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