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There will be no bus stoppages in the area while no public transport will run there, he said.
There are about 150 factories, City Gate, Koiballodham Temple, Jahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium and two railway stations in Uttar Kattali and all of these will remain shut.
Grocery shops, pharmacies, and shops of necessary goods will be shut in the lockdown area but e-commerce organizations will provide home delivery services.
Food for slum people in the lockdown area will also be ensured.
“Uttar Kattali has been chosen for experimental management,” said CCC Chief Health Officer and committee secretary Dr Selim Akhter Chowdhury.
Total Red Zones in Bangladesh
Two city corporations in Dhaka, Chattogram, Narayanganj, Narshingdi and Gazipur district have been marked as ‘Red zones’.
Seventeen areas under Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), 28 areas under Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), 11 areas in Chattogram, Sadar, Rupganj and Araihazar upazilas of Narayanganj, Narsingdi Model and Madhabdi thanas, Palash upazila in Narsingdi district and all upazilas of Gazipur district will be declared as Red zones.
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The areas were identified at a meeting of the Central Technical Committee at the Directorate General of Health Services on Saturday.
Those areas are being considered as Red Zones in Dhaka and Chattogram city corporations where 60 cases in last 14 days or among 100,000 population were detected, according to a source of DGHS.
The health authorities of the country have so far reported 90,619 coronavirus cases and 1,209 deaths in the country.