News Desk :
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh on Saturday surprised Covid-19 patients in the city’s locked down Wari area with gifts of fruit baskets.
Volunteers, guided by Councilor Sarwar Hossain Alo, are delivering the fruit baskets to the patients’ houses following health guidelines set by the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).
They delivered the fruit baskets to 30 houses on Saturday while the remaining ones will be provided with the mayor’s gift today ( Sunday, report UNB.
Each basket is full of fruits like mango, pineapple, blood orange, guava, pomelo, amra and amloki. Some specific parts of Wari were put under lockdown on July 4 for 21 days as 77 people have been detected with coronavirus there.
The new patients who will be affected during the lockdown will also get the gift.
DSCC has also been providing necessary food to 600 people thrice a day and free vegetables to 300 families in the areas under lockdown.
