Published 16:51 IST, March 13th 2020

School boy gets suspended for selling sanitiser to classmates amid Coronavirus scare

A school boy from the Dixon's Unity Academy, United Kingdom gets suspended for selling squirts’ of hand sanitiser to his fellow classmates. Read more.

Reported by: Riddhi Adsul
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Ever since World Health Organisation officially cited Coronavirus as a pandemic, panic level amongst people has increased tches higher. However, some people have taken vant of people’s concern for a quick capitalisation. Post, World Health Organisation issued precaution guideline to frequently wash hands, use hand sanitizer and face masks,  pharmaceutists in various cities have hyped prices of sanitisers and masks. However, y are t only ones making quick-bucks from situation. 

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Recently a teenr got suspended for charging his fellow students for a 'squirt' of hand sanitiser he was carrying. student from United Kingdom was sent home from school for day after he was caught selling m to his friends at Dixons Unity Acemy in Leeds. Reportedly, 13-year-olds' name is Oliver Cooper. Oliver picked up a tub of Johnson's child hand wash worth 1.60 euros (Rs 151) from a Tesco store in Leeds. From which, he me a quick £9 (Rs 850) from that single tub after charging people to use cleansing product. Soon after schoolboy was caught by his professors, he was put in two-hour detention after assertedly breaching school rules.

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According to an international daily, school boy's mor posted her son’s money-making scheme on Facebook. "Very hard to discipline this behaviour when his d phones him from work to call him an () legend" she wrote on in her caption. post received nearly 198,000 reactions and 98,000 comments. 

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16:51 IST, March 13th 2020