Police stop a private car for questioning at a checkpoint in Dhaka on the first day of the weeklong strict lockdown on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 | Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune To ensure that the lockdown is properly enforced and people abide by the Covid health safety restrictions, police in Dhaka have been active on the city streets since Wednesday morning. A health professional waits for transportation at a Dhaka intersection on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 | Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune They have set up checkpoints at almost every major intersection in Dhaka along with exit and entry points of the capital as roads remained mostly empty. A man delivering goods using a bicycle on the empty streets of Dhaka on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 | Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka TribuneMost of them, after being questioned by the police, showed medical reasons for being on the streets. Dhaka wears a deserted look with almost no traffic on the first day of the eight day lockdown that began on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 | Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka TribuneAll industries and factories have been allowed to continue their operation following health guidelines and the respective industries must take measures to carry their employees in their own vehicles but a few have complied with this directive so far. An empty Dhaka flyover on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 | Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka TribuneThe government was forced to enforce a weeklong stricter lockdown from 6am Wednesday following a record-breaking Covid-19 upsurge across the country in recent weeks.

Source: Dhaka Tribune April 14, 2021 08:25 UTC