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Medical supplies with inflated prices removed from e-commerce sites

Vietnamese e-commerce platforms has forced the removal of thousands of medical supplies from online shops for selling at inflated prices, as part of efforts to keep the market stable during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Medical supplies with inflated prices removed from e-commerce sites ảnh 1Vietnamese e-commerce platforms has forced the removal of thousands of medical supplies from online shops for selling at inflated prices. (Photo: tuoitre.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnamesee-commerce platforms has forced the removal of thousands of medical supplies fromonline shops for selling at inflated prices, as part of efforts to keep themarket stable during the COVID-19 outbreak.

According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), as of February 24,Vietnamese top e-commerce players such as Sendo, Shopee, Lazada, Tiki, chotot,fado, bibomart and concung, among others, examined 463,865 online stores withmore than 1.75 million medical products.

As many as 5,200 sellers with over 21,000 products were handled for pricingviolations during the inspections.

On Sendo.vn, 3,000 products in the category of medical mask and 500 alcoholhand-wash gel items were removed. Meanwhile, the numbers of removed items onShopee.vn were over 3,500 and 500, respectively.

The ministry said that other e-commerce platforms also tackled nearly 1,000merchants selling nearly 10,000 face mask items, and 700 others selling nearly1,000 hand-washing gel products at soaring prices./.
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