Between pandemic and poverty
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Between pandemic and poverty

The Hindu  

Imam Hossain, a construction worker in southern Bangladesh, is marooned at home for most of the day due to the coronavirus shutdown. “I’m just waiting for the shutdown to end,” Mr. Hossain told this reporter by phone from a remote, impoverished village in the southern district of Pirojpur. Mr. Hossain’s condition illustrates quiet, anonymous moments of near-starvation among a large swathe of the working poor. “They can’t express the problems they are facing due to the lockdown,” Mr. Alam, who works at the World Bank’s Dhaka office, wrote in a Facebook post. In parts of the country, many scramble for relief distributed by the government, but people like Mr. Hossain will suffer in silence.

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