People walking past the closed holy Sunni Abu Hanifa mosque to help fight the spread of the coronavirus, in Azamiya area of north Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday (April 5). The coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. - AP
BAGHDAD: On an abandoned sidewalk in Baghdad, a city under strict government curfew to contain the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak, a handful of volunteers with masks and gloves make food packages for needy families.
"What we're doing is a humanitarian duty towards society, and anyone who can afford it should do the same," said Abu Hashim, an Iraqi businessman in his fifties packing non-perishable goods outside a lonely storefront in the Iraqi capital's east.
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