Today's Gallery (2020.05.07)

Frontline health workers at Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in the capital collecting samples from behind a glass barrier for coronavirus testing yesterday. Some of those outside the barrier are employees of the very hospital, they said. Photo: Rashed Shumon
People buying clothes from roadside vendors in New Market area. Photo: Firoz Ahmed
Women entering through the partly shuttered gate of a market near Kellar More on Kazi Reazuddin Road in the capital yesterday. Many shopkeepers and shoppers have been defying the coronavirus restrictions putting themselves and others at risk. Photo: Firoz Ahmed, Prabir Das
Even though boats, carrying people, gliding gently over the Buriganga is surely a welcoming sight, this is also quite risky amid the coronavirus pandemic. With the ongoing shutdown in place, boatmen have been struggling to make ends meet. Desperate, many have started plying their boats on the river to transport passengers from Sadarghat to Keraniganj. This photo was taken on Tuesday afternoon. Photo: Rashed Shumon