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Lockdown in red-zones in four more districts of Bangladesh to control coronavirus spread

<span style="color: #222222;">Amid continuing rise in Corona positive cases in the country, Bangladesh has brought high infection areas in four more districts under lock-down from Wednesday to control further spread of the coronavirus.<br />''<br />''The Ministry of Public Administration issued a gazette notification to this effect on Tuesday.<br />''<br />''The government has declared 'general holidays' in certain areas in Cox's Bazar, Mogura, Khulna and Habibganj districts of the country.<br />''<br />''According to the notification, public movement will strictly be controlled in the 'red zones' to contain the transmission of Coronavirus.<br />''<br />''All government and private offices will remain closed in these areas. However, emergency services have been exempted from the purview of the lock-down.<br />''<br />''The Dhaka South City Corporation (DCSC) Mayor also announced that the South City corporation is ready with all the preparations for imposing lock-down in the 'red-zones' under its jurisdiction.<br />''<br />''In Dhaka, the lockdown in the Rajabazar east area has been further extended by one week from Wednesday after it was first imposed on 9th June for two weeks.<br />''<br />''So far, the government has imposed shutdown in areas falling under red-zone in 15 districts in the country.<br />''<br />''In the meanwhile, with 37 deaths reported from Bangladesh in the last 24 hours, the death toll in Bangladesh due to Coronavirus has gone up to 1582.<br />''<br />''During the same period on Wednesday, the total number of people infected in the country has gone up to 1,22,660 with 3462 new cases reported.</span><br />

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