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Toilet paper panic-buying in Germany amid Virus outbreak

The Coronavirus pandemic has sent panicked shoppers across Europe into a toilet-paper buying frenzy.

Generally speaking, people tend to wildly overestimate their TP needs, as many people use more toilet paper than needed.

Germany, like many European countries, has seen demand for toilet paper spiral since the start of the outbreak.

Videos of scuffles in supermarkets have been circulating widely on social media — one argument over toilet paper in a supermarket last week even ended in a fistfight that required police intervention.

Chancellor Angela Merkel set a better example when she was photographed doing her weekly shop last Friday with just one pack of toilet paper in her trolley, and four bottles of wine.