Trucks await produces to be unloaded from them at the wholesale fruit market in Old Dhaka’s Badamtoli. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Workers are unloading mangoes from a truck arriving from Rajshahi in Old Dhaka’s Badamtoli, the largest wholesale fruit market of Bangladesh. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Customers haggle for mangoes at the wholesale fruit market in Old Dhaka’s Badamtoli. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Traders sort out mangoes at the wholesale fruit market in Old Dhaka’s Badamtoli. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Fazli mangoes are sold at Tk 20 to Tk 30 per kg at the wholesale fruit market in Old Dhaka’s Badamtoli. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Himsagar mangoes are almost rare at the wholesale fruit market in Old Dhaka’s Badamtoli as the season is ending. The wholesale price of Himsagar is Tk 55 to Tk 60 a kg. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Amrapali mangoes have hit the markets. They are sold at Tk 40 to Tk 60 per kg at the wholesale fruit market in Old Dhaka’s Badamtoli. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Launches are docked at Sadarghat terminal in Dhaka as passenger transportation is banned amid a lockdown to curb surging coronavirus infections. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Launches are docked at Sadarghat terminal in Dhaka as passenger transportation is banned amid a lockdown to curb surging coronavirus infections. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

The authorities are setting up a new pontoon at Sadarghat Launch Terminal in Dhaka making the most of an empty terminal amid a nationwide coronavirus lockdown. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Old pontoons have been set aside to set up new ones at Sadarghat Launch Terminal in Dhaka. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Sonia Gazi waits at Matuail on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway during a coronavirus lockdown on Saturday, Jul 3, 2021 to take her son Abdullah Al Baki to the icddr,b cholera hospital in Mohakhali as he has been suffering from diarrhoea for a week. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Asfia Sirat, a senior assistant commissioner of Dhaka, conducted a mobile court drive in the capital’s Agargaon to prevent people from going out unnecessarily amid a coronavirus lockdown on Saturday, Jul 3, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

A man pays fines to a mobile court for going out without a valid reason in Dhaka’s Agargaon amid a coronavirus lockdown on Saturday, Jul 3, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

With schools closed amid the coronavirus pandemic, slum-dwelling children of Kathalbagan play marbles on the footpath outside Pani Bhaban at Pantha Path in Dhaka. Photo: Golam Mortuza Antu

Executive Magistrate Marufa Sultana Khan Hira fined Mohammad Swapan Tk 500 in Dhaka’s Shahbagh for moving out to see how the coronavirus lockdown was going on Saturday, Jul 3, 2021. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Troops question people as they control public movement in Dhaka’s Shahbagh on Saturday, Jul 2, 2021, the third day of a coronavirus lockdown. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Troops patrol the capital’s Shahbagh intersection on Saturday, Jul 2, 2021, the third day of a coronavirus lockdown. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Two teenaged boys were caught by the police for roaming around Hatirjheel in Dhaka amid a coronavirus lockdown on Saturday, Jul 3, 2021. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

The army set up a check-post on Circuit House Road in Dhaka to enforce curbs amid a coronavirus lockdown on Saturday, Jul 3, 2021. Photo: Golam Mortuza Antu

The police set up a check-post at Hatirjheel in Dhaka to control traffic amid a coronavirus lockdown on Saturday, Jul 3, 2021. Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

The streets of Dhaka were mostly empty in the afternoon of Saturday, Jul 3, 2021, the third day of a coronavirus lockdown. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Rickshaws packed the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway amid a ban on motorised passenger vehicles on Saturday, Jul 3, 2021, the third day of a coronavirus lockdown. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi

Swapan Sarker from Khulna has been running a salon in Old Dhaka’s Nazirabazar for a decade. He used to live and have his meals in a mess, but a financial crisis induced by the coronavirus crisis has forced him to live, cook and eat at the salon now. Moreover, he could not return home due to the ongoing lockdown. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

People crossing the Buriganga river by boats at Sadarghat in Dhaka as motorised passenger transportation is banned amid a nationwide coronavirus lockdown. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove