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Hundreds of textile workers have taken to the streets of Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka to demand wages lost during the coronavirus crisis.
Reuters reports that Bangladesh, which is the second-largest apparel producer after China, is set to lose export revenue of about $6bn this fiscal year as the sector has been hit by cancellations from some of the world’s largest brands and retailers, two industry bodies have said.
We have pictures coming in of children playing out for the first time in six weeks in Spain after the curfew was partially relaxed for under-14s on Sunday. (See update from our correspondent Sam Jones here).
The images show children playing in otherwise-deserted cities from Bilbao to Madrid and Seville. It’s not quite a return to life as normal in Spain, where more than 23,000 people have died from Covid-19, but it is a start.
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