Workers are stuck in the pandemic share each of the packages of instant noodles.
Workers are stuck in the pandemic share each of the packages of instant noodles. A myriad of manual laborers in Hanoi are being stuck as the capital imposed social distancing orders under the Prime Minister's directive 16. They’ve got to divide up each of the packages of instant noodles and bowls of rice, live in a cramped and humid space in order to overcome the pandemic.
The prolonged social distancing period due to the complication of the epidemic situation has left a considerable number of laborers stuck in construction sites and shacks in Hanoi. A lot of people have to eat instant noodles, diminish daily meals, and hold out each day to stay in the capital during the period of time of job loss.
More than 10 workers have been trapped in an ancient town for almost one month. At the house located at 15 Hang Buom. A group of 10 laborers who are Thai people in Muong Ang district, Dien Bien province, have been staying here for nearly a month now. They are construction workers who are hired to renovate this house, however, Hanoi applied directive 16, therefore, construction sites were closed and they got stuck here.
“ I feel very anxious when being trapped here because my family is thoroughly miserable. I have two little kids at home, and I had to get my parents to take care of them in order to arrive in Hanoi for work. Being stuck in the middle of Hanoi in this situation, I can’t head to work, I can’t return to my hometown as well”. said Mrs. Lo Thi Bong, one of 10 workers.
The laborers have to live in a cramped, humid, and deprived space. “It's been almost a month since Hanoi has practiced social distancing. Whenever a charitable organization gives us rice and food, we have cooked rice to eat that day. In the remaining days, everybody has to share each of the packages of instant noodles with each other and live from hand to mouth.
“ I just expect that the Covid-19 pandemic will end soon to make plenty of money and send some to my parents and my children because the new school year is just around the corner. My two kids are very thrilled and long for their mother to buy new clothes for school as well”, said Mrs. Bong.
Mr. Lo Viet Niem( Muong Ang district, Dien Bien) with the group of 10 workers said “ People live here, who are brothers and relatives due to the wretched plight at their hometown, therefore, they asked each other to Hanoi to work, but unexpectedly, just had arrived in Hanoi for more than a week, forced themselves to take unpaid leave. Life is already hard, now it's even harder”.
“It is really tough, I’m unemployed now, so I don’t have cash to send to my family. When I had just come to Hanoi, the first month of working, I still hadn’t received my paycheck, and, as a result, I had to borrow money to purchase my means of transport, food, and drink. However, I had just worked for 10 days, I was forced to be off work all of a sudden. I currently don’t have spare cash left”. shared Mr. Niem sadly.
Mr. Niem added, his great yearning is the city would quickly control the pandemic
in order for everybody to get back to work, have an income to cover basic needs. Mr. Niem and 9 other workers are living in a messy and damp construction right in the middle of the old town. 20 people stay in a flat, which is over 50m2 in size.
In Duong Noi district, there are a considerable number of groups of free laborers living together in rented rooms or cramped makeshift shacks. They are mainly construction workers who are ethnic minorities as well in the Northern mountainous provinces who got stuck in the capital during the pandemic.
There has been a flat which is only nearly 50m2 wide but is currently the residence of 22 workers - 19 people from Dien Bien Dong district, Dien Bien province, and 3 people in Thai Binh.
They are working for a nearby construction site. As Hanoi practised social distancing, they could come back to their hometown, had no jobs, their lives attached to this shabby flat day by day.
“Since the day of social distancing, people have no jobs, no salary and have to stay in a very tight, scorching and sultry space”. Mr. Pham Huu Dang said ( a native of Thai Binh).
“Everybody has to lay mats on the ground to lie down, there is no space to move around, it's very cramped. The most difficult thing for me, especially my friends in mountainous regions, is that they have no income in order for them to send to their family. Just hanging around in the flat all day, I have no idea when social distancing will end so that we can still go to work”. Mr. Dang said.
“We are awfully desirous of financial support from the government to workers in order for everybody to have some money to send to their family, cover the living expenses, and send children to school. Because people in the Highlands are terribly miserable, come to Hanoi in the hope of having income in order to send to their family”. He desired.
The workers got stuck here, just hanging around in the tight space, making friends with their phones.
The pandemic makes their lives more difficult and toilsome. Their biggest yearning is to hope that the city will soon control the pandemic, and return to work to earn some cash to cover their living expenses.
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