China News Service, April 26. According to the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK), the country ’s severe new coronary pneumonia epidemic situation has also affected the country ’s assistance activities for homeless people such as homeless people, making the lives of this group of people worse.
Data map: Homeless on the streets of Japan.
According to NHK's interviews with 30 organizations that carry out related assistance activities in Tokyo, 15 of these organizations may adjust their assistance activities, including stopping the provision of food to homeless people such as homeless people, reducing the scale and reduction of activities The number of times food is served, etc.
In this regard, Masaaki Kimura, a professor at Takachiho University in Japan who has been devoted to such assistance activities for many years, pointed out that "civil activities that provide food for homeless people and other people in embarrassment because of the risk of virus infection are in trouble. Disasters are almost the same, "he called," you ca n’t just let the people take the risks, the public sector needs to lend a helping hand in providing food. "
As of 12:00 noon on the 26th, local time, the cumulative number of newly diagnosed cases of Japanese new pneumonia reached 13,238, and 360 deaths. After Japan entered into a state of emergency from April 7, many places have successively introduced policies that require non-essential industries to suspend business, and called on the public to reduce outings.