The Ministry of Railways has decided to keep the passenger train services closed during the one-week lockdown the government is going to impose due to the alarming rise of coronavirus infections.
Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan confirmed the matter to Jago News on Saturday afternoon.
He said, "The passenger trains will also stay shut like other transports during lockdown but the emergency goods train will ply."
Earlier today, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said the government is going to impose nationwide lockdown for one week from Monday, considering the rapid surge of the virus cases.
Bangladesh government on Friday (April 2) reported the highest daily record of 6,830 coronavirus cases.
As of Saturday (April 3), the country's total infections and deaths stood respectively at 6,30,277 and 9,213.
Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8 last year. Since then it has been struggling to curb spread of the highly contagious virus.
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