Americans are crossing the southern border to stock up on toilet paper and other essential items after finding their own stores sold out of the supplies in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak.

In recent days, photos taken outside wholesale stores in Tijuana, just south of the Mexican border, show customers waiting in long lines ready to fill empty carts, despite the relatively low number of coronavirus cases in the country.

WKBN 27 reports that many of those shoppers have traveled south from California, desperate to get their hands on coveted items.

The news station claims that more than 600 people were lined up outside Tijuana Costco on Tuesday morning waiting to enter the store and stock up.

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