RANGPUR: People offer Munajat at the main Eid congregation at the traditional Collectorate Eidgah Maidan in Rangpur on Tuesday. NN photo

'Should I buy a mask or food?': S Asia’s poor face stark choice

Thomson Reuters Foundation :Buy a mask and let his family go hungry, or buy food and go out into the crowded city without one – that is the stark choice facing Hayatullah Khan, an Afghan labourer whose daily earnings have fallen below $1.50 during the coronavirus pandemic.Like many poor South Asians, Khan has no choice but to leave the house for work. But even without the hit to his earnings from the coronavirus pandemic, he would have struggled to afford...

29 Apr 2020, 12:00 am