No movement pass will be issued by Bangladesh Police during the ‘strict Covid-19 restrictions’ to be imposed from 1 July.
Unless there is an emergency, outdoor movement of people will not be allowed.
Bangladesh Police introduced online application for ‘movement pass’ before the past Eid-ul-Fitr when the whole country was put under Covid-19 restriction. People carrying ‘movement pass’ could roam outside home for limited hours.
While briefing newsmen after the weekly cabinet meeting, cabinet secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam said on Monday, “There will be no ‘movement pass’. No one will be allowed outdoor movement. Only the people in emergency like performing funeral and bringing patients to hospitals will be allowed outside of home.”
Alongside the police, BGB and armed battalion police, the army will also be on patrol to enforce the restrictions, the cabinet secretary said adding they have been given as much authority as required to take necessary action, he added.
“The law enforcement personnel will take legal actions if anyone breaches the Covid-19 restrictions,” the top bureaucrat said.
At the cabinet meeting presided over by prime minister Sheikh Hasina, the disaster management and relief ministry was given directives to provide assistance to the poor people, particularly those the urban poor, under the social safety net programme.