Sales of onions for school lunches Temporary suspension of school due to spread of infection Hanyu Saitama March 14 at 14:36

In response to the spread of the new coronavirus, while schools were closed temporarily, onion, which was supposed to be used for lunch in Hanyu City, Saitama Prefecture, was sold.

In Hanyu City, 14 elementary and junior high schools are temporarily closed, and the city's Board of Education decides to sell onions that have been purchased for school lunches to prevent food loss.

In front of the city hall, about 200 bags of large balls of onion were prepared, each containing about 2 kg.

The price was 200 yen per bag, and visitors came to buy one after another and sold out in about 15 minutes.

A local woman in her 70s said, "I can eat it safely because it is a school lunch ingredient. I want to eat onion, cook it, and use it in various dishes."

Kojima Enmichi, director of Hanyu City School Lunch Center, said, "Lunch has been lost and we have made children feel sorry, but we hope that you can use the ingredients of lunch effectively at each home." Was.