Mexico’s prostitutes end up homeless as coronavirus keeps clients at home, shuts hotels | Malay Mail

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MEXICO CITY, April 9 — Hungry, scared and tired, scores of sex workers in Mexico City have been forced to live on the streets as fear of contracting the coronavirus keeps clients away and the government shuttered the hotels where many of them lived and worked. Now they sleep under makeshift tents...

Thursday, 09 Apr 2020 09:51 PM MYT

Now they sleep under makeshift tents and on sidewalks, relying on social workers and handouts for what little they have been able to eat, and on each other to fend off attackers and criminals. In an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus, which has infected 3,181 people and killed 174 in Mexico so far, city authorities deemed hotels non-essential and ordered them shut.

 

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