The government should take precautionary measures to prevent a fresh surge in the number of coronavirus cases during the Eid vacation, suggested experts.

Mentioning other countries, including neighbouring India, they said the country was likely to witness a fresh surge within the next month.

Mushtuq Hussain, a consultant at the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, said, "There will be a fresh spike in our country.

"There is a trend of seeing a spike in Covid-19 cases with a three-month interval in Bangladesh."

The severity will be as like as Omicron's previous variants, he added.

Recently, South African scientists have detected Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 in the last month.

Several recombinant viruses were also spotted and are currently circulating in different parts of the world, reports livemint.com.

Against this backdrop, health officials said that they have been observing the situation and will sit within a couple of days in this regard.

Prof Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, director general of the health directorate, said, "People have already been rushing to the shopping malls and there will be a home rush during the Eid holidays. We will announce new measures in this regard shortly."

About the spike in India, Khurshid said, "We are thinking what and how to do in reality that so many people have visited India marking Eid by this time."

India saw a 90 percent jump in daily cases on Monday, with 1,274 new Covid-19 cases and one death in the 24 hours ending 8 am yesterday there, reports Indian Express.

Delhi's Covid-19 positivity rate on Monday jumped to 7.72 percent for the first time since January 29, as the city recorded 501 fresh cases.

The Uttar Pradesh and Haryana governments on Monday made masks mandatory in the districts surrounding Delhi.

As per Delhi-based doctors, meanwhile, the hospitalisation rate has not increased.

Meanwhile, China has reported seven more deaths from Covid-19 in the city of Shanghai, a day after announcing its first fatalities from a weeks-long outbreak driven by the Omicron variant, reports media.

With the emergence of the Omicron variant, the country saw a rapid spike in Covid-19 cases since the beginning of January.

The transmission started declining in March with zero death in Bangladesh almost every day during the last month, according to the health directorate data.

Yesterday, the positivity rate was 0.90 percent against 5,545 samples tested.