The Commerce Commission has received nine complaints relating to coronavirus and prices.
It comes as a fourth person in New Zealand was this morning confirmed to have contracted the virus.
Meanwhile, businesses in New Zealand were free to set their own prices for products and the competition, consumer and regulatory agency said there was little it could do.
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"The Commerce Commission does not regulate retail prices," a spokesman told the Herald.