Large crowds queued for food handouts at a township in South Africa as the financial impact of the coronavirus continued to take its toll.
Poor families at Laudium township near Pretoria were given food packages and maize meal, along with products to help protect themselves from the virus such as face masks, soap and sanitiser.
Restrictions imposed by the government to counter the outbreak have made the plight of South Africa’s poorest people – already living from hand to mouth – even worse as day labour jobs have dried up.
The country has Africa’s highest number of confirmed cases.
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