The US embassy has provided Covid-19 response equipment to Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s diplomatic security division.
Ambassador Earl Miller and Embassy representatives of the Diplomatic Security Service Regional Security Office provided essential personal protective equipment (PPE) to Mohammad Ashraful Islam, the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Diplomatic Security Division (DSD).
He will distribute those to the members of DSD as part of continued US support for Bangladesh’s COVID-19 response efforts. This is the seventh in a series of planned PPE distributions from the United States to Bangladesh, the embassy said on Monday. To date, the United States, through the Departments of State, Defense, and Agriculture, USAID, and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, has provided more than $56.5 million in aid to combat COVID-19 in Bangladesh.
The U.S. Embassy Dhaka-donated equipment delivered on August 23, 2020 includes 1,000 KN95 masks, 2,000 washable face masks, 800 250-milliliter bottles of hand sanitizer, and 1,400 face shields, all of which the United States purchased locally from Bangladeshi companies.
An equal number of PPE also will be donated for distribution to the Armed Police Battalion -1 (APBn) and the Immigration Police Unit, the embassy said.
