Price hikes in pandemic

During the country wide lockdown we purchased surgical masks a pack for 5 for R22.95 from Dischem, today we bought 5 same surgical masks individually pack but came to R74.75!!! Dischem explain yourself as this is **************** during a PANDEMIC absolutely pathetic how do u justify this absurd price for the same item within the same month!!!! I had held on longer then 5min05 seconds for head-office and my call was not answered as I would like to know how does Dischem justify this price in a PANDEMIC!!!