“Of course I am scared,” said Fernanda Ponciano, a 31-year-old sex worker from Torre del Lago, in Tuscany. She works as a maid in the morning and as a sex worker in the afternoon, she said. But for the most part, Italian sex workers, who are often from immigrant communities, have had to fend for themselves. But without support from the state, she said, many sex workers will continue to go hungry. In the hunt for those who might be spreading the virus, she said, “sex workers are the perfect target.”© 2020 New York Times News Service

Source: bd News24 August 04, 2020 09:11 UTC