The Australian supermarket chain Woolworths has reintroduced a limit on the purchase of toilet paper throughout the island continent, while the shelves are again devalued in the wake of a resumption of the epidemic of Covid-19 in Melbourne ( Victoria).
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The brand again imposed a limit of two packs of toilet rolls per customer in all its stores in Australia.
“We have regretfully begun to observe that the high demand for toilet rolls in Victoria has been moving out of the state for the past 24 hours,” said chain director Claire Peters. “We are taking preventive actions to anticipate any panic purchases this weekend and to help maintain social distances in our stores,” she continues.
The chain announces that it has ordered more than 650,000 packs of toilet paper, an increase of 30% compared to usual volumes.
Compulsive shopping in Australia marked the start of the coronavirus pandemic. This movement on the part of Australian consumers seems to have picked up again, fearing further containment measures. Over the past 10 days, several Covid-19 foci have been discovered in neighborhoods in Melbourne, the country’s second city and capital of Victoria. The army was called in to help reinforce the surveillance of quarantines in hotels and a screening campaign.
In this state, Woolworths supermarkets had already reintroduced on Wednesday purchasing limits for hydroalcoholic gels, flour, sugar, pasta, ground meat, pasteurized milk, eggs and rice.
Australia had relatively mastered the epidemic, with 7,554 cases and 104 deaths for a population of 25 million inhabitants. But a new death this week, after a month without, and between 20 to 30 cases detected daily in Victoria in the past days, raises fears of a new wave of epidemic in the island continent.
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