Tolerbagh goes into isolation
Police have almost isolated Uttar Tolerbagh in the capital's Mirpur with particularly strict restrictions on people leaving the neighbourhood.
"Those who are inside cannot leave… for 14 days. Only those who are outside may enter," officers announced in the area throughout yesterday.
The move came on Sunday evening after two residents of the neighbourhood died of Covid-19 over the last few days. The area is adjacent to Delta Medical College Hospital where the first victim was treated. A young doctor who came in contact with the man had also tested positive for coronavirus.
"It's not a lockdown. We are requesting residents not to leave home. We are allowing one person from each family to leave home for things like groceries and medicines," Tofayel Ahamed, officer-in-charge of Darussalam Police Station, told The Daily Star.
Besides, two mosques have stopped holding prayers and local volunteers are not allowing anyone to enter the neighbourhood without washing their hands and feet.
Rafiqul Islam, president of Tolarbagh Social Welfare Organisation, told reporters that the residents welcomed the measures.
"The two people who died used to go to the same mosque regularly. We requested the mosque committees to stop holding prayers there," he said.
Locals said four people came to the neighbourhood from Australia and China in the last 15 days.
Rab and policemen patrolled the streets near Delta hospital and restricted people's movement yesterday. Only grocery and drug stores were allowed to open.
According to the welfare organisation, the 25 buildings in the neighbourhood are home to over 20,000 people.
In another part of the city, Buet authorities yesterday evening isolated Dhakeswari Teachers' Quarter and asked everyone to quarantine themselves for two weeks after a teacher's mother, who returned from India, tested positive for coronavirus.
Over 150 teachers and their families live in the quarter.
At Block-B in Mirpur-10, officials ordered residents of a six-storey building to quarantine themselves after a resident of the building returned home from Italy.
"We have asked everyone to stay at home for the welfare of the neighbourhood," Mostajirur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Mirpur Police Station, told The Daily Star.
Meanwhile, on Nurjahan road in Mohammadpur, a bakery shuttered after one of it's employees showed symptoms of Covid-19, police said.
SHIBCHAR IN ISOLATION
Officials have been distributing food and drugs among people who are in quarantine in Madaripur's Shibchar since Friday.
About 500 low-income families received rice, lentil, oil, flour, salt, soap, sugar, potato, paracetamol, oral saline and other essentials, said Upazila Nirbahi Officer Asaduzzaman.
At least 193 people who returned to the area from abroad were asked to quarantine themselves. The administration on Friday deployed around 250 policemen to ensure that no one enters or leaves four neighbourhoods in the upazila.
Public transport has been suspended in all of Shibchar and locals were requested to avoid public gatherings.
About 78,000 people in Pachar, Bahertola, and ward-2 and 3 of Shibchar municipality, were affected by the decision.
Meanwhile, officials ordered closure of tea stalls, restaurants and small markets in the adjacent Kalkini upazila. UNO Aminul Islam said, "To contain the spread of coronavirus, we have also closed several roads to traffic."
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