The Government has set up a "war room" for food industry executives to address the crisis and reportedly hired former Nestle executive Chris Tyas to oversee the effort to ensure the UK's food security. (Image: Getty Images)Speaking during the daily Downing Street briefing on Saturday afternoon, Environment Secretary George Eustice urged people not to panic-buy. British Retail Consortium chief executive Helen Dickinson stressed that supplies were holding up, adding: "There is plenty of food in the supply chain." "It's incredibly important that they too have access to food, to those essential supplies that they need." As I said, food manufacturing has geared up to meet an increase in demand and it is up by 50%.

Source: Daily Mirror March 21, 2020 14:14 UTC