To alleviate the situation, the government has been allocating food supplies and other relief items for people in need across the country. Meanwhile, people continued to protest for food supplies, as three separate demonstrations were reported from Rangpur, Narayanganj, and Chittagong yesterday. In Rangpur, traffic came to a standstill for hours as hundreds of unemployed labourers, gripped by fear of perishing without food, took to the streets for relief supplies in Sadar and Paikgachha upazila. They also said they were yet to receive any food supplies from the government and had been starving with their families. In Narayanganj, hundreds of unemployed labourers from Kutubpur union in Sadar upazila blocked the Dhaka-Narayanganj Highway demanding relief.

Source: Dhaka Tribune April 18, 2020 16:41 UTC