Bangladesh, April 13 -- thousand applicants have registered for the movement pass until Tuesday evening, a police clearance which will be needed to travel during the strict lockdown that begins Wednesday.

Around 30,000 passes have been issued by 6:30pm, said sources at the Police Headquarters. Since the launching of the app, around 600,000 applications visited the site for the pass, it said.

Among them, around 60,000 completed registration by that time.

Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed inaugurated the movement pass app.

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"Five thousand applications have been submitted in just one hour. Anyone planning to go outside Dhaka will require the pass," the police chief said.

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