Tesco issues urgent message amid coronavirus warning

Tesco bosses have issued an announcement to customers about stockpiling. A number of supermarkets have been affected by the rush to buy essentials. "We, and I'm sure our

competitors, are re-filling our supply chains as rapidly as ever we can." He added the supermarket will only see “very short term, temporary shortages of certain products.” “People

aren't buying everything and expecting the world to end, what they're doing is taking a very considered view, which is 'what are the things with long life that I can hold -

pasta, UHT milk, frozen - and I'm going to buy 20 to 40 percent more of those categories’,” he said. "So the cumulative effect is it will put the factories, the depots and the

shops under pressure in terms of replenishment." DON’T MISS CORONAVIRUS SEES SANITISER & TOILET ROLL SHORTAGE [STOCKPILING LIMITS] CALPOL SHORTAGE: CHILDREN’S CORONAVIRUS UK

PANIC-BUYING HITS HIGH STREET [DRUG CHAOS] BRITISH PANIC BUYING HAS A TOUCH OF CLASS [COMMENT]  But will his advice be enough to stop panic shoppers fro mass buying products. There have been

concerns that baby formula is running out amid coronavirus panic. Panic in Australia seems to have caused a lack of the essential for parents. Sharing a picture online, one concerned parent

showed the shelves bare in her local supermarket. She wrote: “I desperately need baby formula and toilet paper - and the panic buyers have cleaned out the store entirely. Absolutely

ridiculous. #coronavirus” Stockpiling supplies is being advised against by the government. The UK government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said: “I think the advice is that

there is absolutely no reason to be doing any panic buying of any sort or going out and keeping large supplies of things. “Clearly there will need to be measures in cases of household

quarantine for making sure food is in the right place at the right time. “We imagine that could be a rolling case of household quarantine if that measure becomes necessary, and clearly

things will need to be in place for care homes and so on if that decision is made.” What is the latest coronavirus news in the UK?  The UK has confirmed 208 new confirmed cases of

coronavirus in just 24 hours - with the total number soaring by more than a third to 798. The Department of Health said the new number was up from 590 at the same point on Thursday. There

have so far been 10 deaths from coronavirus in the UK. The Department of Health said a total of 32,771 people have been tested in the country.