It's really a natural calamity that mainland China is being plagued by the novel coronavirus pneumonia on the arrival of the year of the rat. Some unscrupulous merchants should have taken advantage of the national crisis to make a fortune.

神州鼠年天降灾，奸商欲發國難財。

A cabbage had been sold at sixty-odd yuan. The store charged ¥ one hundred for two disposable gauze masks.

單棵菜蔬逹六十，雙副口罩索一百。