Bangladesh to go into countrywide all-out lockdown from Thursday Restrictions on a limited scale from Monday
The government has decided to enforce a nationwide all-out lockdown from Thursday (July 1) while a lockdown on a ‘limited scale’ will remain in effect from Monday (June 28). The decision came from a high-level meeting on Saturday presided over by Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan.According to people who attended the meeting, public transport will be suspended from Monday. Factories, especially export-oriented ones, are likely to be exempted from the restrictions, they said, adding that banks were also likely to operate on a limited scale. The Cabinet Division will issue a notification on Sunday detailing the restrictions, Principal Information Officer Surath Kumar Sarker of the Press Information Department (PID) told the media. “An all-out lockdown for seven days will be imposed from July 1,” he said. On Friday, the PID announced the move to impose a week-long complete shutdown from Monday. “A strict lockdown will be enforced for seven days starting from Monday. It might be extended,...
