Pop-up shops, textile firms move into Pakistan’s frenzied mask market

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Khurshid Ahmed

Sat, 2020-07-25 01:39

KARACHI: As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread across Pakistan, a chaotic market has sprung up for face masks.
In the early days, frontline medical staff and the public clamored for masks and other personal protective equipment, as production companies in Pakistan and around the world struggled with a host of obstacles, from illness to freight costs, from hoarding to a supply squeeze on filter fabric.

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