Producer Vinda Says Shortage Rumor "Holds No Water"

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SGnews reports that Johann Christoph Michalski, the chief executive of Vinda International Holdings, was incredulous when word started spreading on social media in early February that toilet paper was about to run out in Hong Kong.

Within days, supermarket shelves across the city would stand empty as long queues of shoppers made off with multiple bags of toilet paper rolls in the misguided belief that a coronavirus outbreak in mainland China would disrupt supplies. The self-fulfilling prophecy soon found its way around the world, with similar reports of panic shopping for toilet rolls, tissue paper from Singapore to Sydney.

“There are no supply shortages in Hong Kong or in China,” Michalski said in an interview with South China Morning Post, adding that people should not believe everything they read on social media.

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