H-E-B limits how much hand soap and sanitizer you can buy amid coronavirus outbreak

H-E-B grocery stores are limiting the sales of certain health and cleaning products amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The Texas-based chain announced the temporary limitations are intended to ensure the products are available when they’re needed most.

“It is H-E-B’s commitment to meet our customer needs,” the company wrote in an email to McClatchy News. “Occasionally, H-E-B limits product purchases per shopping trip to ensure our customers can find the products they want, when they need them.”

Shoppers will only be allowed to purchase four units each of hand soap, hand sanitizer, disinfectant sprays and disinfecting wipes.

An H-E-B spokesperson said the company has a “strong” stock of these products and continues to refill the items every day.

The demand for these products nationwide has skyrocketed. Market researchers say demand for cleaning supplies has increased 1,400% from December to January, CBS News reported.

More than 90,000 cases of the COVID-19 virus have been confirmed worldwide with more than 3,000 deaths as of March 2, according to Johns Hopkins University. The United States has at least 92 confirmed cases with six deaths.

H-E-B has more than 400 stores in Texas and Mexico.