The traders transferring goods over the makeshift barricade erected at the entry of Old Dhaka’s Wari amid the lockdown enforced in the area for 21 days to stop the spread of coronavirus outbreak. To put it in context, the average daily rate of infection against the number of tests across Bangladesh is 23 percent. DSCC workers spraying disinfectants at Old Dhaka’s Wari, the area flagged as red zone, to stop the spread of coronavirus outbreak. The authorities have put up kiosks to collect samples of suspected COVID-19 patients from the virus hotspots in Wari during the 21-day lockdown that began last Saturday. Sarwar Hossain Alo, the councillor of the local city corporation ward, said tests on 24 of the 51 samples taken in three days came back positive.

Source: bd News24 July 07, 2020 21:33 UTC