Diary

Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency's English Desk plans to cover on Thursday, March 26, 2020 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

As the novel coronavirus continues to spread around the world, people continue to quarantine themselves in their homes, but experts say lack of physical activity and poor eating habits pose risks to our health.

All their nine children are no more. AIDS decimated them, leaving the two nonagenarians married for ages, eye-to-eye with poverty, with no pension benefits from government, yet bearing the burden of looking after a troop of their orphaned grandchildren.

Bangladesh has begun lockdown in all 34 Rohingya refugee settlements in the country's southern district of Cox's Bazar.

For Dr. Shobha Luxmi, life has completely changed since she was appointed head of an isolation ward for the coronavirus patients at the government-run Dow University of Health Sciences Hospital Karachi.

As the country remains under a lockdown to battle a daunting coronavirus outbreak, local charities are playing a role to stem the economic burden on the low-income groups providing them rations and medical assistance.

Turkish paralympic judoka Recep Ciftci, who had already secured a spot in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, says postponement of the Olympic Games has adversely affected him both mentally and physically.

Appointment of Adnan al Zurfi Iraq's new prime minister has evoked mixed reactions in the country. -