Watson's Hong Kong has been hit by the pandemic but immunity boosting vitamins subcategory, such as vitamin C, as the retailer “saw first quarter sales jump over 40-fold year on year". Hong Kong’s retail sales in the first quarter, which fell by 36.9%, was the deepest year on year decline on record. This comes as the city remains mired in a recession. The economy contracted by 8.9% in the first quarter of this year, the worst on record, having been hit hard by months of anti-government protests, a trade war between the US and China, and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Here’s a #throwback to our post on online public interest in #turmeric and #vitamin C during the coronavirus outbreak.
