The pandemic brings poverty to about 150,000 Barcelona residents
epa08934913 Three homeless people sit in a street in downtown Barcelona, Catalonia, north-eastern Spain, 13 January 2021. A report from the Institute of Regional and Metropolitan Studies (IERM) estimates that between 129,000 and 152,000 people living in the metropolitan area of Barcelona became at risk of poverty in 2020 by the epidemic of COVID, which would be added to the 648,000 pre-existing, while the average annual net income in metropolitan households has been reduced around 7 percent. EPA/Enric Fontcuberta
