Violating Home Quarantine Order: Five returnees fined
Five returnees from abroad were fined Tk 32,000 in total for violating home quarantine order in three districts during the last two days. Meanwhile, three traders were fined Tk 55,000 for hiking prices of essential commodities taking advantage of coronavirus fear.
Separate mobile courts fined three returnees from abroad in the district for defying home quarantine on Saturday, our Patuakhali correspondent reports.
In Sadar upazila, Executive Magistrate and Upazila Nirhabi Officer Latifa Jannati fined Sajol Karmakar (35) from the town's Natun Bazar area Tk 5,000.
He returned from India on March 11 and was seen roaming outdoors.
In Mirzaganj upazila, UNO and Executive Magistrate Sarwar Hossain fined Monir Hossain (32) Tk 2,000. He returned to Poshim Subidkhali village from Malaysia recently.
Dashmina UNO and Executive Magistrate Tania Ferdouse fined another man Tk 5,000, who returned from Oman recently. His identity could not be known immediately.
Meanwhile, samples of two people with coronavirus symptoms were sent to Dhaka, said Deputy Commissioner of Patuakhali Matiul Islam Chowdhury yesterday.
Of them, a 60-year-old woman went to the town from India recently and another man went to Moukaran in Patuakhali Sadar upazila two days ago from Kalkini upazila near Shibchar in Madaripur, he said.
"We already declared the houses they are staying in as 'home quarantines'. The order will be effective until we receive their reports," he told a press briefing at his office around 11am.
In the district, around 2,165 people were put in home quarantines and 402 of them were released, said DC Matiul Islam.
In the last three months, around 8,344 migrants returned to Patuakhali and police and health officials concerned are looking for them, he said.
Our Manikganj correspondent reports, a mobile court led by Ghior UNO Irine Akter yesterday fined three businessmen Tk 55,000 for hiking prices of essential commodities.
The court fined grocers Nripen Ghosh Tk 20,000, Sanjay Ghosh Tk 15,000 and Shyamol Ghosh Tk 20,000 at Baniajuri Bazar.
Meanwhile, the UNO fined Mazharul Islam Razu, a returnee from Saudi Arabia, Tk 10,000 for violating home quarantine directive.
Our Dinajpur correspondent adds, a mobile court fined a woman, who returned from Jordan, Tk 10,000 as she was roaming around at Pechulia village in Joypurhat Sadar upazila.
The woman was identified as Farzana Bibi, said Miltan Chandra Roy, executive magistrate of Joypurhat DC office, who conducted the mobile court.
Health department says, 72 returnees from different countries have been put in home quarantine in the district.
In eight districts, including Joypurhat, under Rangpur division, 539 returnees from abroad have been put in quarantine, said Dr Mostafizur Rahman, director of DGHS in Rangpur.