Stores run out of masks, wipes amid panic buying over coronavirus

08 March 2020 - 00:00
By MPUMZI ZUZILE

Hand sanitisers, hand wipes and medical face masks have vanished from the shelves of many pharmacies as South Africans resort to panic buying following a KwaZulu-Natal man testing positive for the coronavirus.

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