Dhaka: Bangladesh will lift the Kuncian Coronavirus nationally for the second largest religious festival in the country, the government said on Tuesday, even when the new infection surged to record levels.
The cabinet said all restrictions would be reduced in the majority of Muslims 169 million people from Thursday, ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival which will be celebrated from July 20 to 22 this year.
The removal of the sidewalk will “normalize economic activities” ahead of the celebration, he added.
Dozens of millions of people usually return to their village to mark Eid al-Adha with their families.
Bangladesh enacted his most strict lock at the beginning of the month when the new Covid-19 case and death rose to the highest pandemic.
Under Kuncian, people are only allowed to leave home for emergencies and buy important items, with public transportation, shops and offices.
But infection continues to rise, with nearly 14,000 people testing positive on Monday, a new diary, to take the total number of cases to more than one million.
Death tolls have increased above 16,600.
But experts say real numbers can be much higher amid worries of underreporting.
Mohammad Shahidullah, who heads the health committee that advises the government about how to manage a pandemic, say a group of experts to oppose the lumbary easing.
“The committee leads that this tight chef must be continued until there is a tendency for infection,” Shahidullah told AFP.
“In the middle of the class, there are trends of infection and increased death.
The level of infection is still very high.” There is also worries that crowding on the market to buy animals for massacres and big meetings during the festival can be a super-spreader event.
The announcement came when the authorities began the Covid-19 vaccination drive again, which almost stopped at the end of April after the import of a shot from India was suspended to meet local demand amid a surge in the virus.
The inoculation program that was revived began on a large scale on Tuesday with two million Sinopharm shots from China and 2.5 million modern doses of the United States through the Covax program.
So far, 4.2 million people in Bangladesh have been fully vaccinated with two doses of astrazeneca vaccines purchased or donated from India.
1.6 million will then receive one shot.
In the nearest Bhutan, half a million modern doses arrived on Monday night from the United States through Covax.
More shots are expected to be contributed by Denmark, Croatia, Bulgaria, China and several other countries.
Small Himalayan kingdom, which has a population of 770,000, has requested more shots after using most of the 550,000 doses of astrazeneca donated by India.
It has been inoculating more than 60 percent of the population with the first dose at the end of March and early April.
In the second most infected country in the Indian world, where cases have declined from the highest record in May, Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned against people who flock to North Himalayas to escape from the summer heat Blazing.
“The virus did not come and go alone …
We took it with us when we did not obey the rules.
Experts warn us repeatedly that careless behavior, such as density, will lead to increased Covid cases,” he said Tuesday.
During the meeting with the state leader.
The Ministry of Health said more than 230 million rupees ($ 3 million) were allocated for emergency packages to increase the number of ambulances and ICU beds at public hospitals.