Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government's decision to lift lockdown restrictions, amid a rampant coronavirus epidemic, was aimed at protecting people's livelihoods and enable them to ride out the economic crisis. “The reality is we can’t let people die from starvation because of fears over the coronavirus. We have to take steps to let them live,” Hasina said in parliament on Sunday, according to bdnews24.com. Hasina lamented the fact that the novel coronavirus struck at a time when the country was making great progress in alleviating poverty. “I told them we lost members of our Awami League family, a parliament member and another cabinet member.

Source: bd News24 June 14, 2020 13:41 UTC