Coronavirus: Stay at home. But what if you are homeless?

COVID-19 poses a great threat to those who are living on the streets

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Christian Borbon (Senior Web Editor)
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1/20
Stuart Malcolm, a doctor with the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, speaks with homeless people about the corona virus (COVID-19) in the Haight Ashbury area of San Francisco California.
AFP
2/20
Homeless children sit inside a restaurant in Quezon City in Manila, Philippines after the shop converted parts of its premises into a shelter for the homeless amid the island-wide lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
AFP
3/20
A homeless woman receives food from an association which helps the homeless on the street of the southern city of Montpellier, France.
AFP
4/20
Red Cross worker Giorgio Vacirca, pushes a cart containing a tea flask to be delivered to homeless people living on the streets in Rome, Italy.
REUTERS
5/20
Co-owners of Spout, Jenny Kelly (L) and Michael Kelly (R), deliver food from their restaurant, that will otherwise spoil while the restaurant is closed, to a nonprofit organization that helps the homeless, as authorities restrict all dining inside restaurants due to reports of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the area, in Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Reuters
6/20
A homeless person is given bottles containing hot tea by the Red Cross in Rome, Italy.
Reuters
7/20
A man looks on as a Homeless man wears a protective face mask in Newcastle as coronavirus cases grow around the world, in Newcastle, Britain.
Reuters
8/20
Municipality workers attend homeless people at a temporary shelter in the House of Culture of Quito.
AFP
9/20
A woman is pictured wearing a mask as she walks pass a homeless person at Rossio square, in downtown Lisbon, Portugal.
Reuters
10/20
A homeless man holds a sign reading "What about us Boris - were we gunna isolate? Help!", relating to the UK government's advice to self-isolate if a person has covid-19 symptoms, in London.
AFP
11/20
The homeless individuals have seen their income from panhandling significant decrease in the last week as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has emptied streets in the university town.
Reuters
12/20
A homeless person talks to Red Cross workers in Rome, Italy.
Reuters
13/20
A homeless person sits on a bench as people look out our from their windows in Rome, Italy.
Reuters
14/20
A nun gives chocolate to homeless people at the shopping street "Zeil" during a partial lockdown in Frankfurt, Germany.
Reuters
15/20
A woman wearing a face mask waits to hand out food to the homeless, a day after California's Governor Gavin Newsom implemented a statewide "stay at home order" directing the state's nearly 40 million residents to stay in their homes for the foreseeable future in the face of the fast-spreading coronavirus disease (COVID-19), outside the Glide Memorial Methodist church in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, California, U.S.
Reuters
16/20
Volunteers from the association Circolo San Pietro economic cuisine, and volunteers of the S.O.d.M (Sovereign Order of Malta) get organized to distribute meals to the homeless and people in need, in Via della Lungaretta in the district of Trastevere in Rome.
AFP
17/20
A homeless man holds up a sign outside Westminster underground station as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in London.
Reuters
18/20
Posters with information about the prevention against coronavirus are display as homeless people wash their hands in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Reuters
19/20
A homeless man takes a bag with food at the social organization "Gast-Haus" for people in need in Dortmund, western Germany.
AFP
20/20
A homeless person sits with his cat on a street in Paris as a strict lockdown comes into in effect in France to stop the spread of COVID-19.
AFP
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