To gain a sense of how Covid-19 has impacted Asian society starting with its basic unit, the nuclear family, have a word with Mrs Suraiya Haque in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Mrs Haque is executive director of Phulki, a non-governmental organisation she founded in 1991 to provide workplace-based daycare for the children of women gaining employment in the country's then-mushrooming garment industry.
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