A row of street food vendors in Bangkok with few patrons due to the partial shutdown.
In an effort to slow infection rates, many countries and cities have imposed strict lockdown measures. “Governments should design a bailout package for informal sector workers, including street vendors, whereby direct cash transfers are made to their bank accounts to help them survive,” Suri told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
They use vans, motorcycles, rickshaws, bicycles, carts, tables and chairs, or even a simple piece of cardboard laid out on pavements to transport and sell their foods. In many of Asia’s mega-cities, they are estimated to number more than 300,000, said John Taylor, an adviser for the Food and Agriculture Organization in Dhaka.
“Street food vendors are still able to sell food for takeaway, but there are fewer customers,” she said. “Prices of commodities are also much higher but they can’t raise prices.”
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