Coronavirus: Law ministry opens desk to get updates of judicial officials, staff

The law ministry has opened a monitoring desk in order to take necessary steps to tackle a coronavirus outbreak if it takes place among the lower court judges and employees across the country.  

Two deputy secretaries of the ministry have been given responsibly of the desk to get updates from more than 1,800 judicial officers (lower court judges) and around 18,000 employees about the corona virus situation.

The cellphone numbers of the deputy secretaries have been given to all the judicial officers and employees so they can be contacted in case of any emergency, Law Secretary Md Golam Sarwar told The Daily Star yesterday.

He said Law Minister Anisul Huq is looking into the overall situation and giving necessary instructions to this effect.        

In response to a question, the law secretary said 30 judges of the subordinate courts, who returned from Australia after a training on March 15, are now in home quarantine, but none of them have been infected with corona virus.

Their home quarantine will end on March 30, he added.

Contacted, Law Minister Anisul Huq also told this correspondent that none of the judicial officers or employees have been infected.