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Lidl gives free fruit and veg to thousands of NHS staff to help keep workforce healthy

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Lidl will be donating thousands of its fresh fruit and vegetable bags to NHS staff to ensure frontline health workers access to healthy produce as they battle Covid-19.

The supermarket giant announced the initiative today through its partnership with Royal Voluntary Service. The bags will be distributed to NHS staff at hospital sites UK-wide after reports from workers that panic buyers are causing them to go without.Lidl CEO Christian Härtnagel said: “We are so grateful to the NHS and all of its staff for their hard work every day to help keep the nation safe."This is our small gesture to say thank you, and help provide NHS staff, who may not be able to get into store regularly for basic groceries, with fresh fruit and vegetables.“We hope

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