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BDRCS-COVID-19-SOCIAL MEDIA
BDRCS sends awareness messages on COVID-19 to 6.2 lakh people
DHAKA, April 9, 2020 (BSS) – Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) has
sent awareness messages to over some 6,20,000 people from March 22 to April 6
to create awareness on Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) through using social
media like Facebook and Twitter.
Besides, the officials and employees of the society alongside its
volunteers are also giving posts and thus sharing various awareness messages
in the social media on COVID-19, said a press release here.
BDRCS said they are circulating various informative messages on this
deadly virus through opening up various groups in their official social media
pages on Facebook and on Twitter.
From March 22, the volunteers of the society have been distributing
awareness leaflets on COVID-19 across the country, including the capital
Dhaka, using loudspeakers to create mass awareness, distributing health
safety equipment, spraying disinfectant alongside increasing awareness on
social media and their campaign would continue.
The release said a coordination meeting to review the ongoing operations
of the society and framing future work strategy was held at the society board
room with its vice chairman and IFRC member Dr Habibe Millat, MP in the
chair.
BDRCS Secretary General M Firoz Salahuddin and other directors were
present while the society officials joined the meeting through video
conference from their respective places.
Meanwhile, the society has been continuing its various operations
throughout the country to prevent and control COVID-19 to motivate people to
maintain social and physical distancing, installing basins at various places
to wash hands, spraying disinfectant at hospitals, hat-bazars, mosques,
temples, churches and other places of gatherings.
The society has been distributing food materials among the poor and
destitute people and it would soon distribute food materials including rice,
pulse, edible oil, sugar and salt among some 40,000 families.
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