Outside Milan’s Pane Quotidiano charity, people who have recently lost their jobs due to COVID-19 pandemic are lining up to receive a food parcel to survive. The line has reportedly grown in size everyday ever since the pandemic swept across the world a year ago. Some even decided to conceal their faces in masks or plastic bags, afraid their identity would be recognised.
Many leave with packages to feed all members of their family as they struggle to make ends meet. Last year has seen 720,000 fall below the poverty line in the north of Italy as throughout the whole country, the amount of people in poverty soared by a million. People include undeclared workers, youth and even women whose employment seemed to be worst hit by the outbreak.
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