Tag: COVID-19
NYC Stores Accused Of Selling Price-Gouged COVID Rapid Tests
Assorted NYC businesses have taken to food delivery apps including Seamless to resell at-home coronavirus antigen tests for well above retail price, Vice reported.
While...
Australia’s Watchdog Worries About Price Gouging In COVID Testing
Josh Frydenberg has spoken to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chair Rod Sims about concerns some suppliers are charging sky-high prices for Covid-19...
NY AG Warns Against COVID Testing Price Gouging
New York Attorney General Letitia James' office issued an alert Tuesday asking consumers to report any potential price gouging of at-home testing kits after...
South African Regulator Caps COVID Testing Prices
South Africa's Competition Commission has reached an agreement with two major laboratories Ampath and Lancet to reduce the price of Covid-19 PCR test prices...
UK Watchdog Criticized for Disbanding Covid Unit
The UK competition regulator has been criticized by lawyers and its former chair Andrew Tyrie for closing a COVID-19 unit at the start of...
CPI TV Ten Minutes With ACCC Chair Rod Sims
Below, we have provided the full transcript of the interview with Rod Sims, Chair of the Australia Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), recorded on...
UK Regulator Warns COVID-19 Test Providers
Private companies that sell COVID-19 tests to holidaymakers have been told to “get on the right side of the law” by the competition regulator,...
UK Lowers Cost Of COVID-19 Travel Tests After Probe
Britain said on Friday it was cutting the cost of COVID-19 tests for travel from the National Health Service (NHS) and was reviewing the...
Challenges and Changes for Competition Authorities During and Post Covid-19
By Yungshin Jang (Korea Institute for International Economic Policy)
The COVID-19 has threatened almost every sector with unwanted challenges and risks. Competition policies are no...
UK Regulator To Investigate Pricing Of Covid Tests For Travel
UK's competition watchdog is looking into fees for the COVID-19 tests required for international travel after concerns about the vastly different prices being charged...
