Takeaway iftar items not safe, coronavirus experts say

Dhaka, May 03 – Though restaurants have been allowed to sell iftar items during Ramadan amid the Covid-19 pandemic, health experts advised people to depend on homemade food as the items from the eateries can be the means for coronavirus to travel. They think the deadly coronavirus can spread everywhere — from making to delivery– of the iftar items at the restaurants if proper safety measures and health hygiene are not maintained at this time of the dangerous pandemic.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) allowed shops and restaurants to sell iftar items from Tuesday last on conditions that vendors and consumers would follow hygiene and a safe distance.
During a visit to some restaurants in the city on Thursday, it was seen many of those making and delivering the iftar items were not properly using gloves and masks while they were touching the food repeatedly with hands posing a risk of the virus transmission. – UNB