Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) has sent awareness messages to over some 6,20,000 people from March 22 to April 6 to create awareness on Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) through using social media like Facebook and Twitter.
Besides, the officials and employees of the society alongside its volunteers are also giving posts and thus sharing various awareness messages in the social media on COVID-19, said a press release here. BDRCS said they are circulating various informative messages on this deadly virus through opening up various groups in their official social media pages on Facebook and on Twitter. From March 22, the volunteers of the society have been distributing awareness leaflets on COVID-19 across the country, including the capital Dhaka, using loudspeakers to create mass awareness, distributing health safety equipment, spraying disinfectant alongside increasing awareness on social media and their campaign would continue. The press release said a coordination meeting to review the ongoing operations of the society and framing future work strategy was held at the society board room with its vice chairman and IFRC member Dr Habibe Millat, MP in the chair. BDRCS Secretary General M Firoz Salahuddin and other directors were present while the society officials joined the meeting through video conference from their respective places.
