A supermarket in Loudwater is one of many across the country that is on the verge of running out of toilet roll and pasta amid coronavirus fears.
Footage shows that Tesco, which is just off the M40 motorway, is nearly out of stock on the everyday essentials and the Italian dish.
This comes after there have been several confirmed cases of the illness, as well as deaths across the country, with the first fatality in the UK happening at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading on March 5.
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Following the bulk buying of toilet rolls, Tesco have issued a statement to their customers.
The Tesco in Loudwater
They said: “To help us keep these essential items on sale, we are restricting sales of toilet roll to a maximum of five products per customer.”
One customer who was in Tesco at the time said: "I think it's ridiculous.
"The country has gone into a massive hysteria over an issue that professionals are telling us to keep calm about .
"People need to get a grip."
Other major supermarkets across the country have issued similar statements in terms of people panic buying.
People are panic buying pasta at the Tesco in Loudwater
South Bucks has been impacted by the illness since the end of February as Wycombe Hospital’s UTC was temporarily shut due to a scare, with the Simpson Centre in Beaconsfield also being briefly closed due to a potential case.
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Two schools in the county (The Royal Grammar School in Wycombe and the Chalfonts Community College), released statements after they returned from Northern Italy during the outbreak, and on February 29, we exclusively revealed that one of the first cases of the illness in the country was a 26-year-old man from Chesham.
The Asda in Wycombe
The first death of illness that happened in the county was in Milton Keynes and Greg Smith, the MP of Buckingham, has urged people to use their ‘common sense’ amid the fears, whilst a ‘contact’ at the RGS in Wycombe has contracted the illness.
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