{"id":34774,"date":"2021-08-04T14:01:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T05:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/04\/workers-return-to-bangladesh-garment-factories-despite-record-covid-deaths"},"modified":"2021-08-04T14:01:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T05:01:16","slug":"workers-return-to-bangladeshs-garment-factories-despite-record-covid-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34774","title":{"rendered":"Workers return to Bangladesh\u2019s garment factories despite record Covid deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands flock to cities as government allows manufacturers to reopen, with exporters citing fears Western brands would divert orders<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers have returned to major cities, besieging train and bus stations after the government said export factories could reopen despite the deadly coronavirus wave.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities had ordered factories, offices, transport and shops to close from 23 July to 5 August and confined people to their homes for a week, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/29\/bangladesh-soldiers-set-to-patrol-streets-as-national-covid-lockdown-looms\">coronavirus infections and deaths hit record levels<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/04\/workers-return-to-bangladesh-garment-factories-despite-record-covid-deaths\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands flock to cities as government allows manufacturers to reopen, with exporters citing fears Western brands would divert ordersCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi garment w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,1066,576,1453,59,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-coronavirus","category-fashion","category-garment-workers","category-global-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34775,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34774\/revisions\/34775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}