New Delhi (NVI): Thousands of readymade garment (RMG) factory workers have started heading back to the country’s capital, Dhaka, from northern and southern districts to save their jobs, ignoring risks to their lives and a potential coronavirus outbreak.
The government has shutdown educational institutions, cut off mass transports and urged people to stay indoors to contain the spread of the virus.
But its efforts will face a tough challenge as people have started returning to attend work, amidst the fears of losing their jobs and no source of earning, according to United News of Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, 2 people have died due to novel coronavirus in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 8, according to the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).
9 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 during this period, taking the total of number of such cases in the country to 70.
IEDCR director Meerjady Sabrina Flora in an online briefing informed, “In the last 24 hours, two more people died. One of them is 90 and another 68 years’ old. Both had underlying health conditions.”
