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This picture taken on February 9, 2019 shows Nurlina, 19, who got married in 2017, holding her daughter in the village of Galung Lombok in West Sulawesi. - Child marriage has long been common in traditional communities from the Indonesian archipelago to India, Pakistan and Vietnam, but numbers had been decreasing as charities made inroads by encouraging access to education and women's health services. (Photo by YUSUF WAHIL / AFP) / TO GO WITH Indonesia-India-Vietnam-children-health-virus-family,FEATURE by Haeril Halim, Aishwarya Kumar and Tran Thi Minh Ha

Virus despair forces girls across Asia into child marriage
(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 1, 2018, workers work at a garment factory in Yangon. - From factory floors in India to the warehouses of Cambodia, garment workers for global brands say the collapse in demand triggered by coronavirus is being used as a cover to break their unions. (Photo by Ye Aung THU / AFP)

Virus used as cover to smash Asia unions
TOPSHOT - In this picture taken on April 19, 2020, Muslims maintain social distancing during noon prayers at a mosque in Karachi during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus. - Across the continent, home to about half of the world's Muslims, the upcoming Islamic holy month of Ramadan is on a collision course with the coronavirus. (Photo by Rizwan TABASSUM / AFP) / To go with AFP story Health-virus-Asia-Muslim-Ramadan-religion, FOCUS by David Stout and Sajjad Tarakzai

Ramadan on collision course with virus for Asia's Muslims
A floating accomodation facilities, which will be used as temporary housing for healthy foreign workers as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, is docked at Tanjong Pagar terminal port in Singapore on April 12, 2020. - Thousands of migrant workers are being moved out of crowded dormitories in Singapore after a surge in new coronavirus cases linked to the sites, authorities said on April 9. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP)

Pandemic a 'perfect storm' for South Asia
Migrants sit under the shade of a tree as they camp at a government school during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in New Delhi on April 3, 2020. (Photo by Money SHARMA / AFP)

Coronavirus cases in South Asia near 6000
Vegetable vendors set up their stalls maintaining social distance at an open field during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mumbai on March 30, 2020. (Photo by Indranil MUKHERJEE / AFP)

Asia virus latest: Modi apologizes, Australia limits gatherings
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