The Algerian government has called on municipalities to deliver necessary food products to those in need to their houses once per week, banning the distribution of food on streets.
Earlier, a video circulating on social media of hundreds of people gathering to get aid triggered a wave of anger among Algerians. Activists on digital platforms shared the video showing the crowd beside a truck in Blida, carrying potato bags donated by businessmen from Ain Defla Province. The video upset the Algerian government and people, describing it as humiliating to those in need.
The boxes delivered to poor families contain wheat, oil, sugar, coffee and dough. For this purpose, the heads of municipalities were assigned to calculate the total number of concerned families.
An official at the municipality of Ouled El Alleug in Blida (in the south of the capital), which is classified an infected area and has been in lockdown for 12 days, said that Blida received instructions to deliver aid to houses in order to preserve people's dignity instead of them going on their own to charity associations to get aid.
