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Bangladesh on Monday extended its strictest lockdown to July 14 to combat a surge in coronavirus cases led by the highly contagious Delta variant, with areas bordering India taking the brunt of ...
Bangladesh on Monday extended its strictest lockdown to July 14 to combat a surge in coronavirus cases led by the highly contagious Delta variant, with areas bordering India taking the brunt of ...
The "general holiday" (lockdown) due to end on 4 April was extended to 11 April, then to 14 April, then to 25 April and then again to 5 May. [39] Bangladesh crossed the figure of 100 confirmed cases on 6 April and 1,000 confirmed cases on 14 April. [citation needed] On 20 April, the number of confirmed deaths crossed 100. [40]
Biman Bangladesh announced that it would suspend all domestic and international flights from 30 March till 7 April. The airlines will operate its flights to London and Manchester on 29 March and fly back to Dhaka on 30 March. [59] Despite lockdown, Muslims across the country were reported to have joined the Jumah prayer at the mosques on Friday.
News24 was one of the nine Bangladeshi television channels to sign an agreement with Bdnews24.com to subscribe to a video-based news agency run by children called Prism in May 2016. [6] The channel officially went on the air on 28 July 2016. [7]
Two of those affected returned to Bangladesh from Italy and one was a family member of one of those two. [82] On 18 March, the first known coronavirus death in the country was reported. [83] On 22 March, Bangladesh declared a 10-day shutdown effective from 26 March to 4 April to fight the spread of coronavirus. [84]
The lockdown resulted in the state recording zero active cases of COVID-19 in November 2020. [citation needed] Victoria entered its fourth lockdown on 28 May 2021 [26] [27] in response to an outbreak of the Delta variant. [28] Originally scheduled for seven days, the lockdown was extended to two weeks and lifted on 10 June. [29]
Six television channels, namely STV-US, CSB News, Channel 1, Diganta Television, Islamic TV, and Channel 16, have been taken off air. Bangladesh has four state-owned television stations, of which only three broadcast on terrestrial television, which are BTV Dhaka, BTV Chittagong, and Sangsad Television.