Dhaka: The government in Bangladesh has decided to enforce a one-week shutdown from April 5 to control the new Covid-19 blowing in the country, a minister announced here on Saturday.
The Obaidul Quader, Minister of Roads, Transport and Bridges in Bangladesh, made the announcement on Saturday in an online press conference in Dhaka.
Meanwhile, the country’s Minister of Public Administration, Farhad Hossain, said they would soon issue new guidelines on people and services to be exempt from the closure.
Factories will remain open and workers will be able to work shifts by adhering to hygiene rules.
The first exclusion, described by the government as a general holiday, together with a closure of transport, began on 26 March 2020 after the first Covid-19 cases and deaths have been reported, bdnews24 reported.
The public was told to stay home with all kinds of public transportation suspended.
Educational instructions were closed from 17 March 2020.
The government has ordered that offices, public transport system, domestic flights and stock exchanges be reopened on 31 May 2020, after two months of closure.
It has issued sets of guidelines for health safety to protect the virus and said the strict rules will be reinstated if the situation worsens.
The pandemic took a worrying turn in the second half of March this year.
Bangladesh has 6,830 new cases from the coronavirus, the highest score on a day, which takes the score of infections to 624,594.
According to data released by the government, the death toll rose by 50 to 9,155 within 24 hours.
Source: Telangana Today