RANGPUR, Mar 12, 2020 (BSS) – Rangpur Metropolitan Police (RpMP) today
started distributing 10-lakh pieces of masks and one-lakh leaflets in Rangpur
metropolis as precautionary measure for preventing coronavirus spread.
RpMP Commissioner Mohammad Abdul Alam Mahmud inaugurated the distribution
programme of masks and leaflets among common people at a function arranged in
Dhap area of the city as the chief guest.
Distribution of the 10-lakh masks donated by ‘Karupannya Rangpur Ltd’
and one-lakh leaflets donated by ‘Lazz Pharma’ will continue in all areas of
Rangpur metropolis with the assistance of local units of the community
policing committees.
In the function, the RpMP Commissioner said cold and cough do not mean
coronavirus infection and cold weather causes cold, fever and cough in
general during this period of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, including
Bangladesh.
“In many cases, there is a possibility of combining the common flu with
coronavirus infection that is why we have to be careful, but not be panicked.
The mask should be used to prevent cold, cough, and dust and germ in the
air,” he said.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around 80 percent of
the people with coronavirus infections get cured without taking any special
treatment, he mentioned.
With Deputy Police Commissioner of RpMP Md Mahidul Islam in the chair,
President of Rangpur Metropolitan Community Policing Committee freedom
fighter Mosaddek Hossain Bablu, it’s General Secretary Golam Zakaria Pintu,
freedom fighter Mohammad Jahangir, Assistant Police Commissioner of RpMP
(Staff Officer) Md. Al Imran Hossain and its Assistant Police Commissioner of
Police (DB) Altaf Hossain attended the function.