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By Express News ServiceTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The capital is facing a severe shortage of masks. District Collector K Gopalakrishnan has convened a meeting of chemists and druggists, the drug control department and legal metrology department to discuss the issue. “There is a severe shortage of face masks. The manufacturers engage in price gouging, making it difficult for medicine shop owners to procure it,” said Jayamohan Thampi of All-Kerala Chemists and Druggists Association, Thiruvananthapuram chapter. Meanwhile, the drugs control department said that it might be out of vengeance that masks were not being provided..