Jahid Nur

Let me start with some sorry statistics on deaths in Bangladesh. On average, road crashes claim more than 30,000 lives every year.

“Before the pandemic, people saw that we were afloat. People knew that we could eat, support our households. We were more or less okay before the coronavirus pandemic. That is why people did not help us and we could not hold out our hands,” said Rashed, summing up perfectly how the lower-middle-income families were in between a rock and a hard place during the health crisis.