Masks covetedat Canton Fair, prices skyrocket
By Qiu Quanlin in Guangzhou and Wang Hongyi in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2009-05-05 07:39
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A woman helps her son put on a mask before he goes to school in Hong Kong yesterday. Edmond Tang |
Sales of surgical masks skyrocketed and pushed prices up by as much as 300 percent at the Canton Fair, amid fears of an A(H1N1) flu outbreak.
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