Coronavirus
Coronavirus Brings Hunger Crisis for Latinos in Queens
Javier Castaño for QueensLatino |
Queues of Latino residents waited recently outside a community center in Corona to collect food and fruit. The line extended for two blocks.
Queues of Latino residents waited recently outside a community center in Corona to collect food and fruit. The line extended for two blocks.
Ecuador has emerged as an epicenter for coronavirus, creating ‘double anguish’ for Ecuadorian immigrants in New York as they watch the virus ravage both their homes, El Diario reports.
‘When I was told that they would not test for coronavirus, I felt really helpless,’ Nima Sherpa said. ‘But I gathered all my strength and told myself that it’s me who has to fight this battle.’
In 1945, near the end of the WWII, the city instituted commercial rent control as an emergency wartime measure, authorized by the state. Advocates are calling for a similar response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Chinese owners of laundromats say they are worried more about their safety during the coronavirus pandemic, and some say they’ve had employees quit because they are afraid to come to work.
The group, which started on Facebook, helps connect volunteers with those in need of things like groceries and medicine. ‘We are really overwhelmed with these calls,’ one member said.
Our reporters captured scenes of the first full day under the governor’s order for 100 percent of non-essential employees to stay home.
The spread of coronavirus could mean additional agony for hundreds of day laborers, mostly Latin American immigrants, who stand on the corner of 69th Street and Roosevelt Avenue and other locations every morning in the hope of scoring temporary work.
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Union members are calling on lawmakers to pass a bill that would provide airport workers with supplemental pay to buy health insurance.