The offices of the plants can remain open to pay the workers, but the owners must inform the associations and industrial police for that. Rubana Huq, president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association or BGMEA, and AKM Salim Osman, the chief of Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association or BKMEA, made the announcement in a joint statement on Friday. They had kept open 41 factories in Dhaka, Chattogram and Gazipur for urgent work until Wednesday after the lockdown started on Mar 26. The number of factories still operating dropped to 26 on Thursday as an entrepreneur died from the coronavirus at a hospital in Dhaka. Just before the daily health bulletin, the government extended the shutdown of offices to Apr 25 and ordered people not to leave home after 6pm.

Source: bd News24 April 10, 2020 12:11 UTC