South Africa Distribution of food, etc. to homeless people New Coronavirus April 10 5:01
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In South Africa, where outbreaks of the new coronavirus are spreading and restrictions on outings continue throughout the country, the poor who have lost their incomes are becoming increasingly impoverished. Distribution such as was done.
South Africa is home to more than 1,900 people on the African continent, infected with the new coronavirus, and has killed 13 people.
However, in South Africa, where the gap between rich and poor is the worst, most economically poor people are unable to work in day employment or selling goods on the streets, and their incomes are cut off.
Under these circumstances, NGOs distributed food and other foods to homeless people with local municipalities in the largest city of Johannesburg on the 9th.
Nearly 1,000 people gathered in the city's parks, each receiving beans, storable milk, and soap.
A man who usually works on a day job at a construction site said, "I want to eat and get well, and I want to clean my body with soap."
The representative of the organization that planned the distribution said that the number of homeless people will be 15,000 in Johannesburg alone, and said, “Restriction on going out will be in the third week, but many people can not get support and society Is also a concern for the stability of the country. "
The South African government initially set a time limit for travel restrictions to 16 this month, but President Ramaposa spoke on television on the night of September 9 and announced that it would be postponed for two weeks to end of April.