The local administration has put 27 houses under lockdown in different unions of Sonagazi upazila of Feni to prevent the transmission of novel coronavirus.
The residents of four houses in Amirabadh union, two in Nababpur, six in Bagadana, six in Motiganj, five in Chardarbesh, two each in Charchandia and in Mangalkandia unions were asked to stay at home for the next 14 days.
According to the local representatives, following the spread of coronavirus, they put the houses under lockdown and sent them on home-quarantine as a number of inhabitants recently returned from different districts, including Narayanganj, Dhaka and Chattogram, as well as abroad.
The lockdown was also heightened following the death of a man after being infected with coronavirus at Fazilpur here on April 9.