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News press release 2o.03.2020. 157 See, for example, Focus Ireland (2020) ‘About Homelessness’ , February 2020, available at: https://www. focusireland.ie/resource-hub/about-homelessness/; Mercy Law Centre (2020) ‘Vulnerable families still being placed in completely unsuitable night by night accommodation’, available at: https://mercylaw.ie/vulnerablefamilies-still-being-placed-in-completely-unsuitable-night-by-night-accommodation/; McCarthaigh, S. (2020), ‘Homeless figures highlight vulnerability during pandemic, The Irish Times, 31 March 2020, available at: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/homeless-figures-highlight-vulnerability-during-pandemiccharity-says-1.4217242. 158 https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters 159 https://ageingissues.wordpress.com/2020/03/21/covid-19-statement-from-the-president-and-members-of-thenational-executive-committee-of-the-british-society-of-gerontology/ 160 The Pharmacy of your Choice scheme is a national pharmaceutical service which meets the needs of more than 150,000 outpatients who benefit from medicines and pharmaceutical devices which are given for free by the Government. 161 Malta Today, Coronavirus: Elderly enrolled within the POYC scheme to receive two-month medicine stock, 12 March 2020. 162 Luxembourg, Official page of internet shop Coronaletzshop.lu 163 FB post of the mayor of Bratislava Matúš Vallo from 18 March 2020, available at: www.facebook.com/vallo.primator/photos/a.904640343027299/1519507684873892/?type=3&theater; FB post of the mayor of Bratislava Matúš Vallo from 17 March 2020, www.facebook.com/vallo.primator/photos/a.9046403 43027299/1518606831630644/?type=3&theater 164 For more information please see www.facebook.com/Bratislava.sk/posts/3061067550622928?__tn__=K-R 165 For more information see the online platform of the French Government on identifying volunteers. 166 Rode Kruis (2020), Coronavirus: dit kun je doen voor ouderen en kwetsbaren, Rode Kruis, 13 March 2020, available at www.rodekruis.nl/nieuwsbericht/coronavirus-dit-kun-je-doen-voor-ouderen-en-kwetsbaren/ 53