"I bought no meat in the last six months, even though my daughters love meat," he said. The prices of essentials and the new cases of Covid-19 have been rising at the same time, he said. "I stopped the tuitions of my ninth grader. I can't think of what will happen in the days ahead." Majnu Mia, who has a pottery store in Shukrabad, said, "I am no longer able to bear the expenses of keeping my wife and my two children in this city ... The daily sale has fallen to just around Tk 200. "I was forced to send my wife and children back to the village in Gafargaon of Mymensingh."