News Desk :
The government has revised its decision on the ‘complete lockdown’ to curb the alarming surge of coronavirus infections.
According to the new decision, the lockdown will be enforced in a limited scale from Monday (June 28), when public transports will be suspended. A complete lockdown will begin from Thursday (July 1).
The decision came from a high-level meeting on Tuesday presided by Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, according to people who attended the meeting.
“The countrywide ‘complete lockdown’ will be enforced from July 1 (Thursday), not from Monday (June 28), SK Rafiqul Islam, Additional Secretary of District and Field Admin Wing of the Cabinet Division, told the media on Saturday evening.
He also said as the month of June is ending, the decision was taken to enforce the lockdown from July 1.
The government announced a strict countrywide shutdown on Friday, when 108 deaths were reported from coronavirus, the second highest single-day toll since the pandemic’s outbreak.
The move came after the national Covid advisory panel recommended a two-week shutdown.
Bangladesh has seen a spike in coronavirus infections and fatalities in recent weeks.
Community transmission of the deadly Delta variant of the coronavirus, first identified in India, might be the reason behind the dramatic surge in infections, the experts’ panel said on Thursday.
The death toll due to Covid-19 reached 14,053 on Saturday while the total caseload touched 883,138 with 4,334 new cases in the last 24 hours, according to the latest data by the health authorities.
