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Subject: Lockdown; a political tool?
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vampboy 27.01.21 - 01:04am
Opposition cries foul in Chad as Covid restrictions cut off incomes and health care in country where two-thirds live in severe poverty.

For Abdulgadir Sanousi the decision to lock down the capital of Chadwas a nightmare. His work driving from NDjamena to Moundou in the south four times a week dried up overnight. This month any work has involved bribing police to let him through the checkpoints at NDjamenas four main entry points.

The situation is just a nightmare for us. We are faced with difficulties by the police. In order to deal with them you need to bribe them, if not they would confiscate your vehicle, says 27-year-old Sanousi.

President Idriss Dbylocked downthe city of around a million inhabitants on 1 January. Gatherings and public transport stopped, and schools, places of worship and restaurants closed. Markets, where the majority of the population make a living, also had to shut down. The airport closed except for cargo and the city was put under a dusk to dawn curfew.

On Thursday some restrictions on travel were eased, but the curfew remains in the central African country, which has recorded just over 3,000 cases and 114 deaths since the pandemic was declared last year.

The government supplied food staples to some neighbourhoods, says Sanousi: They gave us very little stuff, even less than one meal a day.

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Living in this country is very expensive. You need to wake up very early in the morning and work really hard just for food and basics. Imagine on top of that they locked down the city. People here do not think theres coronavirus, even if there is, its not that severe.

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vampboy 27.01.21 - 01:07am


Chad citizens out on the streets protesting against the lockdown. * +

vampboy 27.01.21 - 01:07am
So what should they do? Stay at home and avoid social gathering until the virus ends?
How will they eat, work and feed their children over this lockdown? * +

crail 27.01.21 - 01:11am
How come their streets are our beaches * +

vampboy 27.01.21 - 01:14am
At least you don't have to worry about hippos ramming their heads up your as s at every street corner though. * +

gt_tdi 27.01.21 - 01:28am
Yes he does, he lives in Derby. There are some big girls there. * +

vampboy 28.01.21 - 05:56am
Chad has further extended coronavirus curfew in capital

Chad authorities extended a curfew in the country's capital NDjamena and other provinces to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

If you are in Chad, be mindful of the curfew times and stay at home.
Authorities said in a decree late on Tuesday that curfews would resume Wednesday from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. local time. *

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