The government has scrapped the Independence Day ceremonies in view of the coronavirus outbreak across the world, including Bangladesh, and considering public health.<\/p>\n
The decision was taken after a meeting between President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Bangabhaban, a presidential palace spokesman said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe meeting decided to cancel all the major Independence Day functions due to the coronavirus or COVID-19 outbreak,\u201d President\u2019s press secretary Joynal Abedin said.<\/p>\n
He said placing of wreaths at the National Memorial on March 26 as part of the state programmes, civic reception at Bangabhaban and distribution of Independence Day medals were the ceremonies which would not be held this year considering the public health.<\/p>\n
The press secretary said the novel coronavirus situation and the country\u2019s preparedness in combating the pandemic dominated the head of the state\u2019s hour-long meeting with the premier in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth of them urged the countrymen to be cautious instead of being panicked,\u201d Abedin said.<\/p>\n
During the meeting, they also enquired each other about their health.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the President welcomed the head of the government at Bangabhaban with a bouquet at about 5:05 pm.<\/p>\n
The prime minister also presented a bouquet to the head of the state. _BSS<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The government has scrapped the Independence Day ceremonies in view of the coronavirus outbreak across the world, including Bangladesh, and considering public health. The decision was taken after a meeting between President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Bangabhaban, a presidential palace spokesman said on Saturday. \u201cThe meeting decided to cancel all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4005,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions\/4005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}