Idris Elba launches passionate plea for world leaders to help farmers ‘food will run out!’

Elba and his wife Sabrina Dhowre Elba told BBC News that Governments to plan ahead and help the agriculture industry survive through the COVID-19 outbreak. The actor added if farmers are not protected then some areas may face the prospect of running out of food. 

Elba said: “Without shopping centres and food banks, we will all suffer in the future.

“We need to help the agriculture sector before it suffers.

“That is what we are asking.

“We are not asking individuals who are strapped at the moment.

“We are talking about Governments and asking them to think about the future and to help the agriculture industry survive.

“Because it is about food.

“It is about the basic necessity for human beings.

“That will run out if the farmers can’t farm.”

At the time of writing, Britain has the sixth highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world.

The UK has more than 120,000 cases in total.

The death toll in Britain is currently higher than 16,000. 

A total of 596 people died as a result of coronavirus yesterday in the UK.

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Worldwide there have been more than 2,400,000 COVID-19 cases.

The death toll has reached more than 165,000 at the time of writing.

More than 633,000 people have recovered from the coronavirus across the globe.

The United States has the highest amount of COVID-19 cases in the world with more than 764,000 confirmed cases.

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