Two women have been apprehended for washing already used masks to resell to unsuspecting members of the public amid the coronavirus pandemic.
As the world battles the Coronavirus pandemic, two Mozambican women said to be employed by a Chinese national, were recently caught washing used facemasks with the intention of reselling it to residents of Sofala province in Mozambique.
According to a Journalist, Alexandre who reported the incident via his Twitter handle, the face masks were immediately confiscated and destroyed.
He wrote “Dismantled in Dondo, province of Sofala, a group led by a Chinese citizen who was preparing about 25,000 damaged surgical masks for later sale at 25 meticais each.
“A real attack on public health.”
#Alerta: Desmantelado em Dondo, província de #Sofala, um grupo dirigido por um cidadão chinês que se encontrava a preparar cerca de 25,000 máscaras cirúrgicas danificadas para posterior venda a 25 meticais cada. Um verdadeiro atentado à saúde pública… #Mocambique pic.twitter.com/3eu091qMaU
— Alexandre Nhampossa (@AllexandreMZ) April 18, 2020
Mozambique currently has 39 confirmed cases of Coronavirus with 4 discharged patients and no death.
In another story, Businessman has been arrested by the police after he stole up to 2 million face masks from a medical supplies company that had gone into liquidation, according to New York Post.
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The businessman sold the masks to his contacts in Portugal after keeping stock at a locked warehouse on an industrial estate in the Galician cathedral city of Santiago de Compostela., Spain according to reports emanating from Spain.
Police investigators say the man didn’t only steal masks but also stole other protective equipment, including surgical gloves.
The Spanish government had to buy face masks from China in an emergency purchase, as it was left without enough masks when people became infected with coronavirus and hundreds of people began to die every day in Spain.
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