The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has marked Dhaka and Rangamati as red zones due to rising Covid-19 cases and fatalities.
The infection rate in Dhaka and Rangamati is 10-19%, according to data published on the DGHS website on Wednesday.
Besides, six more districts — Jessore, Rajshahi, Dinajpur, Lalmonirhat, Natore, and Rangpur — have been flagged as yellow zones.
Meanwhile, the other 54 districts have been put under the green zone.
DGHS has, in fact, divided the districts of the country as red, yellow and green zones, considering the infection rate of Covid.
On Monday, the government imposed restrictions on public movement and other activities like operations of public transport vehicles at half their capacities amid the growing concern over the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
The restrictions will be effective January 13 until further notice.
Covid situation in Bangladesh
Bangladesh on Tuesday registered 2,458 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours while the daily infection rate rose to 8.97 per cent.
The country also logged two more deaths over the same period, pushing the tally up to 28,107.
The test positivity rate has been witnessing an upward trend since the start of the new year, rising from 2.43 per cent on January 1.
With the fresh infections, the total caseload reached 15,98,389, according to the daily virus update by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) released on Tuesday afternoon.
