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Despite the claims made a few months ago that Bangladesh has successfully more successfully than many western countries beat back the coronavirus, the virus has returned with a vengeance. In the past month, there have been serious spikes in the rates of infections, hospitalisations, and deaths. The government has, therefore, declared a lockdown to deal with the situation. In my view, lockdown is not the right answer in the long run because its repeated use may paralyse the economy, causing more devastation. More importantly, a lockdown merely represents some temporary, time-bound restrictions, not specific interventions for breaking the chain of new waves of the virus. To permanently break the chain, we need to take some specific actions during and following the lockdown, in addition to expeditiously making vaccines available. ....