World Coronavirus Dispatch: A look at ASEAN's GDP forecasts for 2021

Youngsters' despair deepens as Covid crisis drags on, China refuses to hand over raw data critical to WHO probe and other pandemic-related news across the globe

As the coronavirus pandemic drags on for months or possibly even years into the future, it is inevitable that the countries will respond with curfews, lockdowns and other curbs on movement. In this context, health professionals are concerned about the deteriorating mental state of young people, who they say have been among the most badly affected by the current crisis. Across the world, countries are prioritising the elderly and frontline workers and rightly so, as they are most vulnerable to the disease, but that could also mean it's a long wait for the young. With schools, colleges and institutions shut