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Buenos Aires homeless stuck on the streets during COVID-19 lockdown

For some people, there are worse things than the coronavirus pandemic

Published: April 06, 2020 12:40 Compiled by Christian Borbon, Digital Content Editor and inputs from AFP

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Copy of 768121-01-08-1586161931579 — The Argentine government has ordered people to stay at home until mid-April, but thousands have literally nowhere to go - for them 'home' is the street. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 767535-01-08-1586161900122 — The homeless in Argentina are more concerned about getting food than about contracting COVID-19. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 767549-01-08-1586161916495 — Maria lives near the Banco Santander building in front of one of Argentina's main tourist draws, the Casa Rosada presidential palace. With her two dogs and her books for company, she won't hear about going to a shelter to wait out the pandemic: 'I cannot abandon my animals. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 767538-01-08-1586161903502 — The city authority says it has accelerated plans to transfer homeless people to temporary shelters in sports centers or hotels, which have been readied to ease pressure on normal municipal shelters during the pandemic. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 767543-01-08-1586161907184 — Official figures showed 1,146 people were living on the streets in Buenos Aires in 2019. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 767544-01-08-1586161911449 — However, according a count by social and political organizations, the number of homeless in the capital soared to more than 7,500 in the last few months of Argentina's crippling economic crisis. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 767552-01-08-1586161924582 — A homeless man sleeps at the entrance of a high school in Buenos Aires. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 767526-01-08-1586161893180 — Rodrigo, a homeless man, sits on a monument at a square where he used to live with his wife and daughters until a police raid as police agents check his ID in Buenos Aires. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 767523-01-08-1586161889911 — A homeless man looks inside a fast food restaurant in Buenos Aires. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 767551-01-08-1586161920429 — Some have decried police violence, saying they have at times been forcibly removed from spots they have lived on for years. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 767532-01-08-1586161896805 — Ombudsman Alejandro Amor said that 700 people have already been taken off the streets, but that still leaves thousands more. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 767555-01-08-1586161927768 — A homeless man carries a can of water to the place where he lives alongside other homeless friends in Buenos Aires. Image Credit: AFP

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