A homoeopathic medicine that costs approximately R20 is being sold at six and seven times the rate across the city.

This drug, which is recommended as a prophylactic for COVID-19 by the Ministry of AYUSH, is in high demand. A report in this paper showed stores across selling it at much higher prices than earlier. They claimed that manufacturers were overpricing the drug. Some stores pointed to other chemist outlets saying that at least their price was lesser than the other.