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Vancouver businesses continue to support hospital workers with food, masks (SPH)

Healthcare workers pick up free meals from Terra V Burgers in Kitsilano amid the COVID-19 pandemic (Photo credit: CityNews Vancouver)

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Local businesses that have been temporarily forced to scale back because of the COVID-19 pandemic are still finding ways to support their community.

Tera V Burgers is giving out free meals to frontline healthcare workers while Plenty — a Vancouver clothing boutique — has been sewing and donating masks to hospitals and care homes.

Abdul Muqeet took over the Tera V Burgers in Kitsilano two months ago on the day B.C. banned in-restaurant dining, but the manager says he didn’t want to let the pandemic get in the way of helping where he could.

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Before long, they were delivering burgers to hospitals, including St. Paul’s and Vancouver General.

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