In Hong Kong, a series of cross-boundary truck drivers have been diagnosed one after another recently, which affected the supply of vegetables from the mainland to Hong Kong. In addition, the epidemic has been repeatedly reported to be worsening. It is not ruled out that the city will be closed as a last resort, causing panic among the people. Various food and daily necessities have recently seen panic buying.
Today (13th), the vegetable racks in the Tai Po supermarket were emptied, and the supermarkets in the western district even ran out of bottled water. The shelves of headache medicines in Tuen Mun were also in short supply. Just like the eve of a typhoon, people frantically stock up on food to prepare for the unexpected. time needs.
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Headache medicine rack and vegetable rack emptied in Tuen Mun supermarket
When a reporter from "Hong Kong 01" went to Tuen Mun markets and supermarkets today (13th) to learn about it, he saw that the supplies of consumer goods such as toilet paper, instant noodles, and rice that had been snapped up in the past were still sufficient, but some supermarkets had medicine racks, fresh vegetables, etc. And the eggs are few and far between.
Among them, headache medicine and cold medicine are missing.
Cui Junming, president of the Hong Kong Society of Hospital Pharmacists, said in a radio program earlier that if patients do not develop symptoms while waiting at home to be sent to the hospital, they still need to drink plenty of water and rest, while those with mild symptoms can take it to relieve headache and fever It is estimated that it has become one of the reasons why headache medicines are swept away.
Vegetable prices continue to soar, some people eat rotten vegetables
In addition, the rush for food from supermarkets and sky-high prices are still common in other regions.
Some netizens pointed out in the Tai Po group that the price of food in Tai Po is high, and uploaded photos of the real-time prices of vegetables. Dishes generally cost more than 20 yuan per catty, and some netizens said bluntly: "𠵱The price of vegetables at home, seafood is more than seafood. I heard a teacher's words on the day of rushing for food a few days ago. It’s so expensive, and all the dishes are expensive.” Some netizens joked that the price of vegetables would go on forever, “I’m afraid that my friends who used to eat iftar will switch to meat.” Since the street food stalls are expensive, all the dishes in the supermarket are sold out early in the morning. After sweeping away, some members of the public said, "There is no sun-baked food in Tai Po at 3 o'clock. It's so good, I'm going to order takeaway tonight."
As for the supermarket market in the Western District, the situation is no different. Not only have the vegetable racks been emptied, but even bottled water has become a target for snapping up.
Some netizens uploaded a photo of a rotten vegetable abandoned by a citizen holding a vegetable stall, "Hong Kong has fallen into such a state, we have to eat rotten vegetables", and some netizens bluntly said, "30 mosquitoes and catties of vegetables are not affordable for everyone."
The government emphasizes that supermarkets are not closing down the city is now rushing to buy food. Netizens are hotly discussing grain storage: no rush, but dynamic purchases have increased by 1347 today. About 2,000 confirmed cases of "closed city" searches have soared. The wave is heating up, the citizens are eager to buy the consumer committee, and the consumer committee calls for rationality: do not rush to buy
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