Increase in supermarket sales due to Coronavirus in Belgium 2020, by product

Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, supermarket sales of hand sanitizers in Belgium increased by nearly 500 percent compared to the previous year. To a much lesser extent, sales of toilet paper also increased by 10.5 percent. On the other hand, food products such as pasta and rice also rose in the country. However, these figures were collected prior to the confinement of the Belgian population (18th of March 2020), leaving the possibility of further increase.

鉴于新冠病毒（COVID-19）大流行的影响，比利时超市洗手液的销售量与上一年同期相比激增近500%。尽管程度较低，卫生纸的销售量亦增长了10.5%。与此同时，诸如面条和大米等食品产品在比利时国内的需求亦有所上升。然而，这些数据是在比利时民众实施封控措施（2020年3月18日）之前收集的，故未来销售量的进一步增长仍存可能性。