A health worker takes the temperature of a man who returned from Iran and is under medical observation, after Pakistan sealed its border with Iran as a preventive measure following the coronavirus outbreak, at the border post in Taftan, Pakistan February 25, 2020. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed
Sindh Rangers have recovered more than 70,000 hoarded face masks and arrested one person from Block 13-D of Gulshan-e-Iqbal in Karachi.
The operation was carried out on the Supreme Court’s orders to curb the hoarding of face mask after confirmation of coronavirus cases in the country.
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According to Rangers’ spokesperson:
The rangers team raided a house in Block 2 of PECHS after receiving a tipoff and made 1 arrest. The arrested person told the team that the masks had been stockpiled at Block 13-D of Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
Alongside, rangers also confiscated 200 transfusion drips during the raid.
In a separate incident, the rangers arrested a medical store owner who was caught charging Rs. 1650 for each pack of face masks.
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