A ferry reaches Shimulia in Munshiganj from Banglabazar in Madaripur yesterday morning. As the government declared that shops and malls can be opened from yesterday, amid the ongoing restrictions on movement, people, many of whom are traders and their employees, started returning to the capital. Photo: Sajjad Hossain
A long tailback of cars on Airport Road near the capital’s Cantonment Railway Station. A bottleneck created by a police check point resulted in the tailback, even though no vehicles were being checked. The photo was taken yesterday morning.
Photo: Anisur Rahman
Nazma sitting on a sidewalk of the capital’s Minto Road with her young daughter on Saturday afternoon. While her husband, a day labourer, is away at work Nazma sells face masks to pedestrians -- a venture that has not been very successful during the relatively empty streets amid the “lockdown”. Photo:
Firoz Ahmed
Covid patient Abul Kalam reaches Dhaka Medical College Hospital from Cumilla in an ambulance yesterday. Failing to get the seventy-five-year-old man admitted to any Cumilla hospital, his family rushed him to DMCH, which took him in.
Photo: Anisur Rahman