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Foodbank demand rocketed as coronavirus pandemic gripped Britain, figures show
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mirror.co.ukFoodbanks handed out more than 11 million meals to hungry Britons in the first six months of the coronavirus pandemic, shock figures revealed today.
The country's biggest foodbank network, the Trussell Trust, gave away a record-breaking 1,239,399 emergency parcels between April and September.
With each aid package containing enough food for three meals a day for three days, that equates to 11,154,591 meals supplied as the Covid-19 crisis raged.
Heartbreakingly, 4,237,686 meals went to children. Youngsters received 2,573 emergency parcels every day from the charity's 1,350 centres – totalling 470,854 parcels over the half-year.
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