CORONAVIRUS/Online vendors to start selling surgical masks Wednesday

Focus Taiwan
Date: 06/02/2020
By: Jeffrey Wu and Frances Huang

Taipei, June 2 (CNA) At a time when the government has lifted a ban on the sale and exporting of domestic surgical masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic, online vendors such as momo, PChome and Yahoo Kimo will start to sell face masks on the Taiwan market Wednesday.

The move by e-commerce operators to provide face masks follows physical retailers, who have been selling the products since Monday, when the supplies were sold out soon after being put on the shelves.

momo said the first batch of face masks manufactured by renowned medical equipment supplier China Surgical Dressings Center Co. (CSD) will go on sale at 8 p.m. Wednesday.

The first supply, which will be available in pink, deep blue, red and black, will be comprised of 50-piece flat mask boxes priced at NT$300 each (US$10), or NT$6 per piece, while 50-piece boxes of 3D masks will also be available, carrying a price tag of NT$499, or NT$9.98 per piece, momo said, adding that its members will be allowed to buy just one box per order.
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