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Supermarkets considering enforcing restrictions to control 'panic buying'
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'The panic really isn't needed because there is adequate stock supply in Australia.' 9News

"We have to talk to suppliers first and be guided by their stock supply.Mr Harrison said the difficulty for many suppliers has not only been an increase in customer demand but access to certain products supplied by manufactures in China, which have since halted production.

"It's not just the raw product its all the packaging as well, a lot of which comes from China," he said.Empty shelves where boxes of water would normally be, in Coles Supermarket, Woy Woy. "China is starting to return to normal, a lot of the major production houses are slowly but surely getting back on track and I think we will start to see an improvement over the next month," he said.

"Without any more severe outbreaks we will see international production return to normal in Chine and that will help." The advice from Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been for Australians to stay calm and go about daily life as normal."Just exercise common sense as you would if there was a severe influenza outbreak."

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