Bangladesh: COVID-19 Spurs Unemployment And Poverty

By Stephan Uttom

(UCA News) -- Subir Marak is an irregular daily laborer in Telki village in Bangladesh’s central Tangail district who struggles every day to feed his three-member family.

He earns 700 taka (US$8.25) on average when he can find any back-breaking work in agricultural fields in the area.

Just one year...