The government has set its goals and objectives so that no one in the country would die of starvation due to the coronavirus outbreak, said Ministry of Home Affair’s Senior Secretary Mustafa Kamal Uddin.
Reliefs are being distributed massively across the country following the directives of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with overwhelming response from all quarters including private sector, he said while addressing a programme as the chief guest on the relocation of a kitchen market in the New Railway Station area in Chattogram on Friday.
Mentioning lockdown disrupting normal lives, Kamal Uddin said the government will deal with the coronavirus outbreak firmly. “Incentives have been given to keep farmers alive with the government eyeing on marketing the vegetables,” he said before hoping that the crisis would end soon.
Addressing the function, Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) Commissioner Mahabubur Rahman said that coronavirus crisis brought us an opportunity to work for the helpless.
When the virus broke out, they closed the Patenga Beach immediately for the sake of the public before receiving the higher authorities’ instructions, he added. The CMP boss further said they put 90 percent of the expatriates in quarantine with providing them necessary medicines.
Police organized awareness campaign, brought foods to people’s house, drove health workers home to hospital back and forth and helped traders relocate the city’s 20 kitchen markets to open premises, he added.
Presided over by CMP Deputy Commissioner (south) SM Mehedi Hasan, Deputy Inspector General of Police of Chittagong Range Khandaker Golam Faruk, among others, was present on the occasion.
