Health or livelihood? Lockdowns force the world's poorest into deadly trade-offs
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - 09:10
in Psychology & Sociology
Abu Bakr's family had packed up their improvised tents in Sindh, south-east Pakistan, by mid-October 2019. Three months earlier, they had lost their houses and fields due to uncharacteristically heavy monsoon rains. Now they were returning to their village near the settlement of Mirpur Sakro to rebuild their homes. But any hope that the family could return to normality might turn out to be short-lived.