Joint Humanitarian Community Press Release: One year on, Bangladesh has so far successfully limited the health impact of COVID-19 in Cox’s Bazar [EN/BN]
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Cox’s Bazar, Tuesday 9 March 2021 – One year since Bangladesh registered its first COVID-19 case, the country has so far successfully limited the health impact of COVID-19 in Cox’s Bazar while striving to sustain essential health services delivery under challenging circumstances.
“This past year was extraordinary in many ways. For one, the Health Sector led the emergency response with technically sound synergies and intersectional collaboration. On the frontlines,
Cox’s Bazar humanitarians, health care workers and volunteers have relentlessly shown their commitment to provide vital humanitarian and medical assistance, however not without significant personal sacrifices. Pushing to successfully change the course of the pandemic and help sustain important health outcomes, the Government of Bangladesh, donor count
ACC arrests land officer over graft in dev work Staff Correspondent, Chattogram Staff Correspondent, Chattogram
The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday arrested a union-level deputy assistant land officer after he was found making a fortune out of land acquisitions for the government s development work in Cox s Bazar s Moheshkhali upazila.
After months of investigation, the ACC arrested Joynal Abedin, deputy assistant land officer of the upazila s Kalamarchora union, from the port city s GEC circle in the afternoon. He was sent to jail.
Mohammad Sarif Uddin, deputy assistant officer of ACC Chattogram Integrated Office-02, told The Daily Star that Joynal s name appeared when he opened investigation into the irregularities in land acquisition process in February last year.