Share of people engaged in panic buying due to COVID-19 in Singapore 2020, by gender
Rakuten Insight on panic buying after the coronavirus outbreak, 84 percent of female and male Singaporean respondents stated that they had not engaged in panic buying because of the coronavirus pandemic. In the same survey, the majority of respondents who did engage in panic buying indicated that they stocked up on dry food items such as rice, noodles, pasta and flour.
According to a survey by