Responding to a question from the media on Wednesday on whether the government plans to lock down the country, Quader said: "We'll shut down. "The number of passengers will automatically decline; the situation will lead to it [transport shutdown]," he said. The government will "strongly monitor" the quarantine issue, Quader said. "We've scaled down the celebrations of Bangabandhu's birth centenary.”"We'll prevent the situation carefully, so the coronavirus scare doesn’t spread. We should unite -- going beyond communities and differences in ideology and opinion to prevent the coronavirus outbreak.”

Source: bd News24 March 18, 2020 11:15 UTC