The government has issued a notice extending the ongoing nationwide lockdown by one week to April 28.
The Cabinet Division issued a notice on Tuesday, keeping all previous pandemic restrictions in place, including curbs on public transport.
As coronavirus cases spiked throughout the country, the government enforced a stricter lockdown from April 14. The lockdown was initially supposed to end on April 21, reports bdnews24.com.
A meeting on the National Technical Advisory Committee on Covid-19 recommended a one-week extension of the lockdown to break the the coronavirus infection cycle.
Bangladesh on Monday registered 112 new fatalities from the coronavirus, the most in a day, taking the death toll to 10,497. The caseload surged to 723,221 after another 4,271 people tested positive in 24 hours, according to government data.