Japan asks drugstores to stop medication hoarding by vacationers

TOKYO — The Japanese authorities has requested that drugstores and different retailers take steps to stop hoarding of fever medicines and painkillers used to deal with the signs of COVID-19.

The request didn’t point out any particular international locations, however there have been reviews of Chinese language vacationers in Japan shopping for up inventories of over-the-counter medicines in response to the speedy unfold of infections in China.