Residents of Padang city in Indonesia crowd a member of the authorities to receive a queue number in order to collect state aid during the coronavirus pandemic.

In chaotic scenes in the West Sumatra city on Friday (May 15), those who gathered ignored social distancing rules in order to get their hands on a ticket allowing them to later pick up 600,000 rupiah (around $40).

There are nearly 400 cases of COVID-19 in West Sumatra to date.

thousands of Padang city residents who received co-19 impact aid in Padang city scrambled to take the queue number to collect aid money from the state of Indonesia (May 15, 2020) at PT Pos Padang.

tempted by the help, it appears that thousands of people did not use physical distancing to prevent the spread of co-19.

even though they were reminded and shouted by loudspeakers by the officers, the community still did not follow the crossing signs for physical distancing.

the head of PT Pos Padang, sartono said "this assistance is an effort of the Indonesian government to reduce the economic impact for the community, each head of family gets cash amounting to Rp 600,000, -".

ignoring government instructions, the incident could have made the co-19 virus spread if there was one person from the positive co-19 community.

on 15 May 2020 there were 393 residents of West Sumatra Province positive covid-19.