Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday constituted three High Court benches for virtual hearing and disposal of urgent cases during the ongoing lockdown.

A groom in Manikganj was fined Tk 10,000 today for arranging a wedding reception, violating the strict lockdown, while the cooked food for the event was seized and distributed among children of the local orphanage.

Police have arrested 383 people for defying Covid-19 restrictions and health guidelines in Dhaka on the second day of the two week-long "strict lockdown" today.

On the second day of the two week-long “strict lockdown”, streets in Dhaka were mostly empty this morning amid rainy weather.

The Associated Press, among others, reported that the easing of the “strict lockdown” for eight days could exacerbate an ongoing surge in Bangladesh fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant, which was first detected in India.