The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) lifted the lockdown from Wari on Friday midnight, 21 days after it was enforced. 

Dhaka South city Corporation (DSCC) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Shah Mohammad Emdadul Haque violated lockdown rules by entering Wari in Old Dhaka with a convoy on Saturday.

Wari under the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) was put under strict lockdown for 21 days from Saturday morning as the area was identified as a ‘Red Zone’ due to high Covid-19 infection rate.

Marking Wari area in the capital as ‘Red Zone’, Dhaka South City Corporation has decided to put it under lockdown for 21 days to contain the transmission of coronavirus.

The government on Monday announced general holidays for 'red zones' (areas with most coronavirus patients) in some areas of five more districts in a bid to contain the spread of the highly contagious virus.

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday urged people of those areas which have been put under lockdown to follow the government’s directives strictly and face the situation with patience.

The local administration has decided to put the entire Laxmipur district under lockdown in two phases due to an alarming increase in the number of Covid-19 patients.

Some areas of the two city corporations in Dhaka, Chattogram, Narayanganj, Narshingdi and Gazipur district have been marked as ‘Red zones’ to contain the spread of coronavirus.

To stem the spread of coronavirus, the government is planning to designate areas according to coloured zones - red, yellow and green. Different parameters have been set to separate the three and avoid arbitrary zoning.