The comparatively bigger and elegant shopping malls across the nations have stated they preferred to continue the COVID-19 shutdown to reduce scopes of coronavirus spread despite government permission for their restricted reopening ahead of the Eid ul Fitre.
“Most of the shopping malls and markets will remain shut until Eid-ul-Fitr while some small markets have reopened maintaining the government health directives,” Dokan Malik Samity secretary general Jahirul Haque Bhuiyan said in a briefing.
He stated all big markets like Bashundhara City Shopping Complex, Jamuna Future Park, New Market, Mouchak, Anarkoli, Polwel, Gazi Bhaban and City Heart markets in the city would not reopen to stop transmission of COVID-19.
In terms of percentage, he said, less than 20 percent of shops and markets would operate ahead of the Eid in the capital city.
