Coronavirus: the impacts on 50,000 Italian homeless

Italy's measures to contain the coronavirus outbreak ask all citizens to stay at home. But what happens if you don't have a home to go back to?

Emergenza Coronavirus, distribuzione di cibo ai senza tetto a Santa Maria in Trastevere. Source: AAP Image/LaPresse/Sipa USA

Associazione Avvocato di strada, a group of lawyers representing homeless people in Italy, is raising the alarm on the plight of Italians who live on the streets. Many are having issues with the local police because they are still living on the streets despite the lockdown.

We talked to the association's president Antonio Mumolo.

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