Japan asks residents to stop buying toilet paper amid fears of coronavirus

The Japanese are trying to dispel «rumors» about the shortage of toilet paper caused by a coronavirus.

Residents of Japan should cease to accumulate reserves, because the supply to continue, said representatives of the Ministry of industry, according to NKH.

Last week the Japanese are in a panic rushed to the stores to buy products for the bathroom, because there were reports that the country cannot produce them in sufficient quantity. The material is said that the raw materials required for the manufacture of paper, cannot be imported from China, affected with coronavirus.

«This is a false news, said one of the manufacturers Global Times. — [Our] supplies have nothing to do with China.»

Outside Japan, in Hong Kong last week, armed robbers detained a delivery driver and stole hundreds of rolls of toilet paper, as the city faced with a shortage of this product.

Recall that the 14 Americans, who evacuated from the cruise ship in Japan, was diagnosed with coronavirus.

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