‘I can’t send money back home’: How a lifeline for the world’s poorest is being cut off due to Covid-19
Hong Kong (CNN Business)For more than four years, Saiful Islam sent about half of the money he made as a construction worker in Bahrain back to his aging parents in Bangladesh. When the 25-year-old lost his job due to the coronavirus pandemic earlier this year, that lifeline for his loved ones was abruptly cut off.