Bangladesh, March 30 -- Around 8,000 cleaners of both the city corporations in Dhaka, who cannot afford sanitisers, masks and protective equipment, are doing their jobs taking the high risk of coronavirus infection and transmission.

According to the city corporations, there are 4,000-4,500 cleaners in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and 3,000 in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) who collect household wastes and take those to secondary transfer stations (STSs).

Officials said these cleaners are not directly under the city corporations as they work under different area-based voluntary organisations. Following approval from the city corporations, the organisations collect wastes from houses and take those to STSs in vans.

Though the...