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Many Chinese are scrambling to buy canned yellow peaches amid a sharp increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in China.
The number of COVID-19 cases in China has risen sharply in recent weeks, prompting people to look for ways to buy fever reducers, pain relievers and even home remedies, such as pickled yellow peaches, CNN reported on Dec. 14. boxes, causing shortages. Online and in-store.
Demand for cold and fever medicines such as Tylenol and Advil is growing across the country as people rush to stockpile for fear they may have COVID-19. Especially canned yellow peaches are considered a particularly nutritious delicacy in many parts of China and are sought after. This product is currently out of stock in many online stores.
However, Dalian Lisheng Foods, one of the largest canned food producers in China, must clarify that canned yellow peaches do not have any medicinal value.
“Canned yellow peaches are different from medicines. There is ample supply, so there is no need to panic or rush to buy them,” Dalian Lisheng Food wrote on Weibo.
The CCP’s mouthpiece, People’s Daily, also published a long article on Weibo, urging everyone not to hoard peaches, because “peaches have no effect on alleviating the symptoms of the disease.” “.
Meanwhile, Chinese authorities are also urging people who are not yet showing symptoms of COVID-19 not to hoard medical supplies.
Drug shortages have spread from mainland China to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Some pharmacies in Hong Kong have sold out of antipyretics such as Panadol. Most buyers send their medicines to family and friends on the mainland.
Meanwhile, the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the Chinese capital Beijing has left streets empty in the region and disrupted daily life.
On December 13, in the high-end business district of Sanlitun, shops and restaurants were empty. Many offices, stores and communities are reporting staffing shortages due to COVID-19.
On the morning of Dec. 14, China’s National Health Commission (NHC) said the country had recorded 2,249 symptomatic COVID-19 cases nationwide in the past 24 hours. 20% of them were found in the capital Beijing.
According to the worldometers.info website, as of December 14, China had recorded a total of 369,918 COVID-19 cases, 5,235 deaths and 329,409 recoveries.
