Coronavirus: Pandemic could spark unrest among West's urban poor: Red Cross

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GENEVA (REUTERS) - Social unrest could erupt among the urban poor and marginalised in the West's biggest cities as they lack sources of income amid the Covid-19 crisis, the head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Friday (March 27).. Read more at straitstimes.com.

GENEVA - Social unrest could erupt among the urban poor and marginalised in the West's biggest cities as they lack sources of income amid the Covid-19 crisis, the head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Friday .

Francesco Rocca, an Italian who heads the world's largest disaster relief network, said that as well as social unrest the risk of suicide is increasing among vulnerable isolated people. "This is a social bomb that can explode at any moment, because they don't have any way to have an income," said Rocca, whose Geneva-based agency also deploys volunteers in hard-hit Spain and France.Rocca, who is also president of the Italian Red Cross, spoke from Milan in the north, epicentre of the country's outbreak, after visiting Codogno, Bergamo, Brescia and Lodi.

 

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