OREANDA-NEWS. Sainsbury's, one of Britain’s largest supermarket chains, places restrictions on visitors to buy the most sought after items because of the situation with coronavirus. This was announced on Wednesday by executive director of the company Mike Coop.

“We have enough food stocks, but we are restricting the sale so that the store shelves are filled up as long as possible and so that as many people as possible can purchase goods,” the news agency writes in an open letter to the chain’s clients. Coop indicated that starting March 18, visitors will be able to buy no more than three groceries and no more than two products from the most sought-after category at a time, including toilet paper, soap and ultra-pasteurized milk.

Earlier, a representative of the Aldi German retail chain in the UK said that due to increased demand due to panic caused by the spread of coronavirus, buyers will be able to purchase no more than four units of one product.

Since the evening of March 16, the number of confirmed cases of infection with a new coronavirus in the country has grown by more than a quarter and reached 1950. At the same time, according to estimates of the chief sanitary doctor of England Chris Whitty and the scientific adviser to the British government Patrick Vallance, the real number of infections can reach 55 thousand.