With fresh cases and deaths from coronavirus are spiralling in the country, the number of vehicles multiplied on the streets of Dhaka, posing a high-risk of mass-contamination of the deadly virus.
Taking advantage of the announcement to relax the restrictive measures, people are now venturing out more, worrying less about the risk of being infected with the virus.
Some of them are even gathering at different shops and malls for their Eid shopping.
State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain on Wednesday said they are all set to issue a gazette notification extending the ongoing general holidays until May 30.
Government offices at different levels across the country will remain open on a limited scale, he added.
Although the movement of public transport is yet to be restored in Dhaka as well as other parts of the country, the city thoroughfares are now busy with private vehicles and rickshaws.
Bangladesh on Wednesday reported 19 deaths and 1,162 new positive cases for novel coronavirus over the last 24 hours, both of which are the highest single-day records in the country so far. The latest figures take the death toll to 269 and the total number of infections to 17,822.
