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Thousands lines up for free food in covid-19 crisis

Newsman: The US is again going to the wrong direction in incredibly rising of Covid -19 infections. It has passed way long the numbers of infection and even the hospitalization rate in the United States. One single day infection rate in US gone up to 184,000 and the hospitalization went up to more than 60,000. A 5 percent of the world population with 20 percent of world’s infection,  uncertainty yet the harsh reality in the United States of America, the leader of the world. Despite the quarter of a million of unnecessary deaths and 11 million infections, the country is still looking for the unified efforts to fight the corona virus. The Presidential election 2020 day is over, but the pandemic is still far way to fight. Government Stimulus to protect especially middle class families and poor, Medical front line workers, police, and local government are missing over the political fight in Washington. Millions are in threatened to be evicted, Millions are jobless and Unemployment rate is climbing again slowly. The situation is indescribable but says simply in picture.

As the Pandemic has forced thousands are seeking food supports from philanthropic initiative across the country, Thousands of people are seen lined up in cars to collect free groceries at a food bank distribution in Dallas, Texas, this weekend.  Organizers are saying the Covid-19 pandemic has increased need in the city.

North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) distributed more than 600,000 pounds of food for about 25,000 people on Saturday, according to spokeswoman Anna Kuruan. There were 7,280 turkeys distributed to families, Kuruan , who talked to the CNN News .

Photos provided by NTFB shows thousands of cars lined up for NTFB’s Drive-Thru Mobile Pantry at Fair Park. North Texas Food Bank’s spoke person said ‘the need for food “has certainly increased” with the pandemic, with Texas last week becoming the first US state to report 1 million cases of corona virus. And

“Forty percent of the folks coming through our partners doors are doing so for the first time,”

A Dallas resident Samantha Woods told CNN affiliate KTVT as she waited in her vehicle stated, .

“I see blessings coming to us cause we all struggling. And I appreciate North Texas helping us out,” “It really is amazing and I thank God that I was able to get in the line this morning.”

Many says, it could have been avoidable easily with the appropriate and national strategy to fight covid-19 .

In another car, one woman told the station she had been struggling: “I haven’t been working since December. I can’t find a job, they cut off my unemployment — it’s a big deal. It’s a real big deal.”

NTFB President Trisha Cunningham said she is proud of her team and the community “for providing some hope and care during these extraordinary times.”

“It was quite a humbling scene to see so many in needs,” she told CNN.

NTFB has several mobile pantry events scheduled throughout the week.

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