Food requests have spiked at Meals on Wheels in Niagara Falls in recent weeks as people practise social distancing in the wake of COVID-19.

“There’s been an increase in our frozen meals this week, almost double what we had been doing on a weekly basis,” said executive director Marianne McRae.

She said the non-profit volunteer service, which provides home delivery of hot or frozen meals, is so far able to accommodate the increase in demand.