(ANS - Lima) - According to BBC World News, Peru is the country with the largest impulse project in Latin America against Covid-19. On April 1, the Ministry of Health of Peru confirmed that 47 people died from Covid-19, 1,323 confirmed cases and 198 people hospitalized. Despite the extremely difficult situation, the Peruvian government has not forgotten the poor or migrants who have been blocked. "In dialogue with the Salesian Congregation and with the permission of the Superior, Fr Manuel Cayo," said Fr José Valdivia, Provincial Economer, "the main courtyard of the Provincial House was made available so as to welcome the needy until this pandemic is over."

(ANS - Santiago de Chile) - The Provincial of the Salesians in Chile sent a letter to his Salesian confreres inviting solidarity and putting personal and community creativity at the service of the health emergency being experienced during this COVID-19 pandemic.

(ANS - Madrid) - In this very difficult moment Spain is experiencing, even the Salesian Mission Office of Madrid, "Misiones Salesianas", wants to play its part in the fight against Covid-19. For this reason, it has launched the campaign "Vamos a superarlo juntos" (We will overcome it together), donating masks to the hospitals of Madrid and thus helping to alleviate the deficiency of this essential health materiel in the city that most suffers from the consequences of coronavirus.

(ANS - Munich) - To respond to the transformed needs and new challenges of working with young people in this era of a coronavirus pandemic, the Salesians of Don Bosco in Germany are strengthening their digital proposals and their presence in social networks to carry out their pedagogical and pastoral work.

(ANS - Rome) - The moment we are living must strengthen us in faith and intensify our prayers. It is the invitation that the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, addresses to all Salesians, to the Salesian Family and to all the catechists, animators, young people and families.