200,000 Pounds Of Food Is Being Donated By Delta: GA Coronavirus

ATLANTA, GA — Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines announced Tuesday that it would provide more than 200,000 pounds of food to hospitals, community food banks and other organizations around the world. The food will support people in need, as well as those working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.

Both perishable and non-perishable goods are being donated. Delta said it adjusted its service offerings on board and in Delta Sky Clubs to reduce touchpoints between customers and employees. There’s still food left that hasn’t expired.

Delta is working with Feeding America and long-term food service partners including Linton Hopkins, Newrest and Sodexo with resources they need to serve their communities.

Here are some of the communities where Delta's food donation efforts are making a difference.

• So far in 2020, Delta has donated over 200,000 pounds of perishable food items from warehouses to Feeding America partner agencies across the U.S. and other charities, including Georgia Food & Resource Center and Missouri's Carthage Crisis Center.
• Regional managers are working with caterers to donate food where needed. In Nice, France, Delta partnered with local caterer Newrest to donate pre-packaged snacks to hospitals and healthcare workers. Additionally, food and coffee were donated to MIR, an organization distributing free meals and providing shelter to the homeless and human trafficking survivors. Managers in New York are also doing their part by providing food donations to hospitals in their region.
• In Philadelphia, Delta partnered with SodexoMAGIC to donate over 500 pounds of food from the Delta Sky Club at the airport to a local Feeding America food bank.
• Delta Sky Clubs around the U.S. including those in Los Angeles and at New York's JFK and LaGuardia airports have activated programs similar to the one in Philadelphia, providing donations to first responders, local charities and churches.
• Delta is working with Linton Hopkins – an award-winning Atlanta chef and longtime Delta partner – to provide trays and packaging supplies to support food distribution with initiatives like ATLFAMILYMEAL, which delivers meals to Atlanta hospitality workers. Hopkins' team is delivering over 5,000 meals per week, including to first responders at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital.
• Delta employees are caring for their colleagues by sending fresh Flight Fuel boxed meals to Reservations and Customer Care centers to support the teams responding to unprecedented numbers of customers needing to make changes to their flights.

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More than 1.3 million COVID-19 cases are confirmed worldwide and more than 79,000 people have died, Johns Hopkins reported Tuesday. The U.S. has over 379,000 cases, the most of any country as of Tuesday.

Georgia saw its largest jump of deaths due to coronavirus on Tuesday, when numbers released by the Georgia Department of Public Health at noon showed 329 deaths, an increase of 100 from Monday at noon.

As of noon on Tuesday, there have been 8,818 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Georgia, and 1,774 hospitalized. This is an increase of 442 hospitalizations and 1,504 new cases since Monday at noon.