Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Md Tajul Islam yesterday said as per the directives of the government, public representatives of the local government are working to check the spread of coronavirus. “The Health Ministry is taking the lead in tackling coronavirus. The other ministries are working concertedly,” he said. The LGRD minister was talking to reporters after a meeting on ‘preparing a work plan to ease the city’s water logging’ held at the Secretariat in the capital. He said the local public representatives have already been instructed to keep the returnees from abroad isolated and they are working as per the instruction.
About his ministry’s steps to tackle coronavirus, Tajul said the chairmen and members of Union Parishads and Upazila Parishads, and mayors and councilors of city corporations and municipalities were instructed to keep the returnees from abroad isolated. He said the local public representatives are working to this end in coordination with the local administrations. “The government is working in this regard. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is giving instructions round-the-clock. There is no reason to be panicked,” the LGRD minister said.
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