A small business, Pepe & Pepe Fiji Limited has been making more than a 100 masks a day to keep up with the demand.

Owner Stella Simpson says they started making face masks when Fiji’s first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in March last year.

She says this week they saw the demand surge again.

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Simpson says it is good to see that people are wearing masks and protecting themselves.

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Pepe and Pepe is located along High Street in Suva.

All their masks sell for $6 each.