Most of long route transports are creating serious risks of Covid-19 spreading by ignoring health safety measures always and in every areas, passengers say.

"No health safety measures are respected in buses. Bus staff do not examine passengers' body temperatures, no hand sanitizers are found in most buses, no disinfectors are inside buses, even no face masks for every passenger in buses," Sabuj Ahmed, a private sector service holder in Motijheel told The New Nation after completing his journey from Khulna to Dhaka on Thursday.  

He and some other of his co-passengers alleged that the supervisor of the bus in which they travelled from Khulna to Dhaka were quite ignorant about the social distancing and other measures.
Sabuj Ahmed said, in the long route he never noticed that disinfector has been spread inside the bus.

But according to the conditions and precautions outlined by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) the staff must spray disinfectors inside buses repeatedly.

The DGHS directives included use of face mask by every   
passenger and staff, providing hand sanitizers for all passengers, and ensuring social distancing by keeping minimum one seat vacant between two passengers.

But the passengers alleged that most of the buses failed to abide by those safety measures properly.

"According to government directives one sit will be vacant between two passengers. But the buses are violating that mostly," said Abidur Rashid, another passenger came from Chattogram to Dhaka's Sayedabad Bus Terminal in the very same day.

He said that most of the buses he found some seats vacant in middle areas. But at the last and on the engine covers, many passengers were there violating social distancing measure.  Most of the passengers said, the buses have charged extra money but failed to maintain health safety measures, which increased their panic of contamination of the Coronavirus from the buses.

After 66 days nationwide shutdown, the public transports have reopened from May 31 across the country to revive the country's economy.

When contacted, Professor Dr. ABM Abdullah, Personal Physician of the Prime Minister, told The New Nation, "The government has reopened the public transport for the sake of the country's economy. I think the bus owners and the staff should ensure health safety measures for their own safety. If anyone infected from the buses, the staff must not be out of contamination of the virus."

So, the safety measures for all, and we all to save each other from contamination of the fatal virus, the public health expert added. Sources said, there are low passengers in the long route buses. In these circumstances, bus owners decreased the number of buses running.

Besides, the small numbers of buses which are on run are violating safety measures due to their dishonest and money-greedy staff. Everyday city residents are leaving Dhaka losing their jobs and other livelihood from the city.

Meanwhile, some of the fortunate hunters are coming to Dhaka from different areas of the country.

Many of those people are paying the price of the inadequate health safety measures, which the experts are saying as a risk of contaminating the virus.