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Residents retrieve their things as a fire engulfs their houses in a slum community on April 15, 2020 in Manila, Philippines. According to authorities, more than a hundred residents were rendered homeless after a fire razed the slum community, amid a government lockdown which has made the country's homeless vulnerable and in need of aid. Close to 70 percent of the homeless population are in Metro Manila and survive by begging, or collecting and reselling plastic and metal scraps. The Philippines' main island Luzon, which includes the capital Manila, remains on lockdown as authorities continue to struggle with the growing number of coronavirus, Covid-19 cases. Land, sea, and air travel has been suspended, while government work, schools, businesses, and public transportation have been ordered shut in a bid to keep some 55 million people at home. The Philippines' Department of Health has so far confirmed 5,223 cases of the coronavirus in the country, with at least 335 recorded fatalities. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)
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