BSS, Dhaka :
The entire country has reeled under severe cold weather during the past few days with mercury hovering well below normal level in most areas, particularly in the northern region as cold wave is sweeping over different regions, affecting normal life.
With prevailing of foggy weather, the minimum temperature in most areas dropped to several notches below normal, disrupting normal life in rural areas, residents and officials told BSS.
Bone-chilling cold and thick fog hit the people hard, especially in the north, yesterday forcing the people stay indoors. While visiting this correspondent in northern district of Rajshahi, biting cold almost paralyzed life of the people as farmers and day-laborers are struggling to continue their daily activities with intolerable cold weather. Usual look is not seen in local market places because of little presence of people.
Residents in different remote areas of the region told the news agency that intensity of cold has sharply increased following rainfall occurred past week. With sweeping of cold wave, a cover of thick engulfed different northern parts, which is delaying appearance of sunlight, they added.
A private TV Channel sources said a good number people mostly children and elderly people admitted to the health complex centres due to cold related diseases and got treatment from there. In Cox’s Bazar and some northern district, hundreds, mostly children and the elderly, are suffering from different cold-related diseases because of the current spell of cold wave. Physicians advised general people to avoid cool wind as it mainly causes cold-related diseases.
In Rangpur, chilling cold forced thousands to stay indoors as it grasped a large part of the northwestern region 24 hours ago along with thick fog that kept transports off the road.
The mercury level dropped at most places during the past 24 hours ending at 4 pm, reducing the gap between the maximum and minimum temperatures causing the bone-chilling cold and exposing the poorer and elderly people as well as minor children to extreme miseries prompting local authorities to seek extra government allocation of warm clothes.
Residents and reports said the weather dulled the businesses causing thin presence in offices while the extreme weather aggravated sufferings of those living particularly on the sandy char areas in Rangpur, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha, Nilphamari and other adjoining districts on the Brahmaputra basin further mounted yesterday.
Doctors said, they continued to treat higher number of people with cough, fever, asthma and other cold and climate change related diseases during the past couple of days.
The entire country has reeled under severe cold weather during the past few days with mercury hovering well below normal level in most areas, particularly in the northern region as cold wave is sweeping over different regions, affecting normal life.
With prevailing of foggy weather, the minimum temperature in most areas dropped to several notches below normal, disrupting normal life in rural areas, residents and officials told BSS.
Bone-chilling cold and thick fog hit the people hard, especially in the north, yesterday forcing the people stay indoors. While visiting this correspondent in northern district of Rajshahi, biting cold almost paralyzed life of the people as farmers and day-laborers are struggling to continue their daily activities with intolerable cold weather. Usual look is not seen in local market places because of little presence of people.
Residents in different remote areas of the region told the news agency that intensity of cold has sharply increased following rainfall occurred past week. With sweeping of cold wave, a cover of thick engulfed different northern parts, which is delaying appearance of sunlight, they added.
A private TV Channel sources said a good number people mostly children and elderly people admitted to the health complex centres due to cold related diseases and got treatment from there. In Cox’s Bazar and some northern district, hundreds, mostly children and the elderly, are suffering from different cold-related diseases because of the current spell of cold wave. Physicians advised general people to avoid cool wind as it mainly causes cold-related diseases.
In Rangpur, chilling cold forced thousands to stay indoors as it grasped a large part of the northwestern region 24 hours ago along with thick fog that kept transports off the road.
The mercury level dropped at most places during the past 24 hours ending at 4 pm, reducing the gap between the maximum and minimum temperatures causing the bone-chilling cold and exposing the poorer and elderly people as well as minor children to extreme miseries prompting local authorities to seek extra government allocation of warm clothes.
Residents and reports said the weather dulled the businesses causing thin presence in offices while the extreme weather aggravated sufferings of those living particularly on the sandy char areas in Rangpur, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha, Nilphamari and other adjoining districts on the Brahmaputra basin further mounted yesterday.
Doctors said, they continued to treat higher number of people with cough, fever, asthma and other cold and climate change related diseases during the past couple of days.
