{"id":34777,"date":"2024-04-30T13:31:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T08:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=34777"},"modified":"2024-04-30T13:31:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T08:31:42","slug":"bangladesh-shuts-schools-again-with-no-let-up-in-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/bangladesh-shuts-schools-again-with-no-let-up-in-heatwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh shuts schools again with no let-up in heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">DHAKA &#8211; Bangladesh again closed all primary schools across the country and educational institutions in almost half of districts including the capital as a severe heatwave saw temperatures climb to 43 degrees Celsius (109 Fahrenheit) on Monday.<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">Schools across the country that closed last week due to the heatwave\u00a0reopened on Sunday\u00a0despite persistent high temperatures across the South Asian nation, which resulted in lower attendance.<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-1\"><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">Extensive scien\u00adtific research has found climate change is causing heat waves to become longer, more fre\u00adquent, and more intense. Aver\u00adage temperatures in the capital Dhaka over the past week have been 4-5 degrees Celsius (7.2-9 degrees Fahrenheit) high\u00ader than the 30-year average for the same period.<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-1\"><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">The govern\u00adment said at least seven peo\u00adple had died as a result of the extreme heat since the start of April, with maximum tempera\u00adtures in the capital forecast to remain above 40 degrees until Thursday. A two-judge bench of the High Court passed an order \u201cclosing all primary and sec\u00adondary schools and madrasas&#8230; due to the heatwave,\u201d<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-1\"><em><strong>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/scorching-heat-wave-shuts-schools-in-bangladesh\/\">Scorching heat wave shuts schools in Bangladesh<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body__element__2p5pI\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA &#8211; Bangladesh again closed all primary schools across the country and educational institutions in almost half of districts including the capital as a severe heatwave saw temperatures climb to 43 degrees Celsius (109 Fahrenheit) on Monday. Schools across the country that closed last week due to the heatwave\u00a0reopened on Sunday\u00a0despite persistent high temperatures across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":34778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16040,16043,16042,127,16041],"class_list":["post-34777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-bangladesh-shuts-schools-again","tag-bangladesh-shuts-schools-again-with-no-let-up-in-heatwave","tag-extreme-weather-in-bangladesh","tag-heatwave","tag-weather-in-bangladesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}