The coronavirus crisis deepened last night with supermarket giant Tesco rationing baked beans and pasta as experts warned 100,000 people could die in the UK.
Britain’s biggest grocer introduced a five-item limit on staple goods after panic-buyers stripped shelves bare at their stores and others nationwide.
It is also rationing anti-bacterial wipes, long-life milk and hand sanitiser gels – bottles of which have been on sale online at 50 times their value.
It comes as a third coronavirus patient died in the UK . The man in his 60s “had underlying health problems” and recently went to Italy, North Manchester General Hospital said last night.
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