Eid in Bangladesh falls on Monday this year, but fear and sorrow have replaced the words ‘celebration’ and ‘joy’ as housebound Muslims prepare to spend the festival day amid the pandemic. COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus, claimed 480 lives until Sunday morning with 28 new deaths in a record single-day spike. The government allowed shopping malls to reopen before the Eid, but the public transport system has remained shut. “The families that don’t have a member infected with the coronavirus won’t understand the mental trauma we are going through. He pointed out that the main parts of Eid – huge shopping, allowances, profit, bonus, hangouts, visiting relatives and friends – are not there this year.

Source: bd News24 May 24, 2020 21:00 UTC