Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, there have been debates over which is more effective – hand sanitisers or soap and water.

The Jatri Kalyan Samity, a passengers’ welfare organisation, requested the government to take immediate measures to disinfect all vehicles running on roads and highways to curb the transmission of coronavirus.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bangladesh has initiated manufacture of hand sanitisers and distributed them among 4,000 poor people and village police members who are the frontline COVID-19 fighters in Khulna.

The detection of coronavirus in Bangladesh has triggered a panic buying of face masks, toilet paper and hand sanitiser across the country, including the capital, pushing up their prices.