Russian pharmacy networks complained about thermometer's shortages

Pharmacy networks were faced with the problem of supplying thermometers for measuring body temperature due to a sharp increase in demand for devices for medical facilities during coronavirus pandemic, Kommersant reports .

So, the network "36.6" still has a thermometers on sale, but in a small amount. In the group of companies, Erkafarm complained of reducing offers from suppliers, which is why the network had to increase the assortment in pharmacies. The Rigla network fixes in the regions cases of non-contact thermometers due to increasing the demand for them not only the population, but also of organizations.

It is noted that Internet companies have not encountered this problem. Wildberries told the publication that they are not experiencing problems with the supply of thermometers. Ozon also said that they have enough degrees of thermometers

According to Sergei Shulyak, General Director of DSM Group, according to the pharmacy, only thermometers with registration certificates of medicalunity can be sold, and now the supply of such goods is limited due to the fact that medical institutions are needed. He drew attention to the fact that online stores can sell thermometers without registration certificates that are actively produced in China.

Over the past day, 10,899 new cases of coronavirus infection in 83 regions have been confirmed in Russia, the total number of detected cases of infection in the country reached 232,243. Russia reached the second place in the world in the number of infected people.

The Chinese authorities reported an outbreak of an unknown virus on December 31. The virus was discovered in Jun-a large shopping and industrial center with a population of more than 11 million people. The causative agent of the disease is coronavirus 2019-ncov. On March 11, the World Health Organization called the current situation with Coronavirus Pandemia.