Panic buying follows Covid-19 coronavirus across the world
Empty shelves at a local supermarket in Singapore after panic buying swept through the city. Around the world, shoppers are hoarding toilet rolls, bottles of hand sanitiser and surgical masks amid the outbreak. – AFP pic, March 5, 2020.
SHELVES are being stripped bare of toilet rolls, bottles of hand sanitiser and surgical masks everywhere from Japan to France to the United States as panic buying criss-crosses the globe with the coronavirus, defying repeated calls for calm and disrupting supply chains. Obsessively documented on social media, scrambles to the shops and empty shelves are adding panic and confusion to the fight against an epidemic that has killed thousands, placed millions under quarantine and battered global markets.
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