Bangladesh government has closed all the educational institutions in the country from 18 March till 31 March in view of the ongoing Corona virus pandemic. The announcement was made on Monday in Dhaka by the Deputy Minister for Education Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury. Dhaka University has also announced that all its academic activities will remain suspended from 18 to 28 March. Rajshahi University and Jagannath University have also been closed till 31st of March. All the coaching centres have also been closed till the end of March.

All the schools are closed on Tuesday for the centenary celebration of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The schools will not be holding any programmes tomorrow in view of the Corona virus threat.

Ramping up the effort to contain the spread of Corona virus government has made home quarantine mandatory for everyone arriving from abroad.

In the meanwhile three more cases of Corona virus patients have been reported from Bangladesh taking the number of infected people to five. Significantly, the three new cases are locally transmitted infections. Confirming the new cases, Director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora said that in the last 24 hours, 10 samples were tested out of which three were positive. Two of the three patients are local infections. One of the new patients is a family member of another patient who was infected earlier.

