Some 84 per cent of the country’s garment workers had worries about Covid-19 pandemic during the first week of last month when they were called back to work amid a strict nationwide lockdown with the virus still surging.This was revealed in a recent survey jointly conducted by South Asian Network on Economic Modelling (SANEM) and Microfinance Opportunities (MFO) under a project titled “Garment Worker Diaries” to collect data on the working conditions, income, expenditure, food security, wage digitization, and health of garment workers of Bangladesh. The report mentioned that during the first week of August, garment workers were recalled to work amid the unexpected easing of the national lockdown. Also read: Garment workers have little access to Covid-19 vaccine information, says a study On August 6, garment workers were asked about how they felt about being recalled to work with the lockdown still in place.