From amateur seamstresses and sewing clubs to Hollywood costume-makers, a patchwork army of volunteers across the United States is churning out gowns and masks for emergency workers battling coronavirus.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday he had ordered the city's human rights commissioner to investigate the dismissal of a worker at an Amazon.com warehouse who had participated in a walkout.

Big U.S. tech firms such as Google and Facebook plan to seek deferment of a new Indian digital tax, which has caught them off-guard as businesses battle the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, industry sources said.

Bangladesh, the second-largest apparel producer after China, is set to lose roughly $6 billion in export revenue this financial year amid cancellations from some of the world's largest brands and retailers.

Christian Dior has reopened its Baby Dior ateliers to produce surgical masks, the latest LVMH company to start creating vital product for the fight against Coronavirus.

Consumer goods giant Unilever Canada is donating $3 million of essential goods to Canadians in need through food banks, in response to the Covid-19 crisis. 

The donation to the NYC Department of Small Business Services Small Business Continuity Fund will help to give financial assistance to those small businesses in the city that have seen revenues hit by Covid-19.

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, the historic American fashion retailer announced on Monday that it will begin manufacturing up to 150,000 surgical masks per day in its U.S.-based factories.

​Some 500 Asos warehouse workers walked out of shifts in Yorkshire on Saturday claiming they couldn’t follow the government's advice to stay two metres away from other people.

Wearing a surgical mask and latex gloves, Spanish wedding dress designer Inma Garcia cuts lengths of ivory satin and frothy net in her Barcelona workshop to make a bridal gown for a Mexican client.

The luxury menswear group has pitched into the Covid-19 fight with a €3 million personal donation by its senior management and the Zegna family to Italy's Civil Protection Agency, and by starting mask production.

Market research firm Kantar has carried out a survey of the expectations of 25,000 interviewees in 30 countries, to help consumer goods companies adjust their communication strategies in a coronavirus-hit world.

Burberry has announced a raft of initiatives designed to support global efforts to combat the outbreak of Covid-19, including the delivery of thousands of surgical masks.

Hosiery and intimates specialist Wolford has shifted production at its HQ in Bregenz, Austria, and its factory in Slovenia from tights and bodies to face masks.

On top of donating thousands of dollars as well as masks to those in need, L'Oréal USA has begun manufacturing sanitizer and is freezing the payments of very small and small-sized enterprises in its distribution network.