An employee waits for customers at a photo shop that now sells food, a consequence of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, in the Chacao neighborhood in Caracas on July 15th, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns. – The COVID-19 pandemic, which arrived in Venezuela in mid-March and had infected some 10,000 people, according to official figures, forced the closure of 90% of businesses in the Caribbean country, according to the private merchants association “Consecomercio”. Only supermarkets, pharmacies and other businesses deemed “essential” by the socialist government were exempt from the national lockdown, which had been intensified in Caracas due to the spread of the virus. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP)
