Protecting people
Protecting people, keeping economy moving is ‘war’: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said keeping away people from getting infected with coronavirus and running wheels of economy simultaneously is a 'war'.
"We have also taken steps so that economic activities could continue running, we have been able to place a budget, this is a kind of war," she said.
The Prime Minister said this while speaking in Parliament taking part in the condolence motion on former minister and ruling Awami League presidium member Mohammad Nasim.
The House also expressed deep shock at the death of State Minister for Religious Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah.
Sheikh Hasina said that deaths of two co-fighters of her, Nasim and Abdullah, is very much painful to her as both of them were always beside her in all movements and struggles.
She said that COVID-19 brought the whole world to a standstill and an unnatural situation.
"The world is now under the grip of panic of death. This is very much strange. We’ve never seen this kind of situation in the past," she said.
In this connection, she said that while she was coming to Parliament today many of her well-wishers requested her not to go there.
But she turned down their requests saying that she had faced bullets, bombs and grenades, and she will not sit idle out of the fear of this virus.
"This fear has clutched the whole world, developed, developing or poor countries, powerful countries in terms of arms and money, there is no difference, all become one by this fear and panic of coronavirus, the situation is the same everywhere," she said.
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