Bangladesh 's Islamist political party , Khelafat Majlish 's leader Maulana Zubayer Ahmed Ansari died in April 2020 .
In Bangladesh , over 100,000 people have defied a ban on public gatherings by attending the funeral of an Islamic cleric and Khelafat Majlish political leader named Maulana Zubayer Ahmed Ansari in the country 's Brahmanbaria district , about 100 kilometres away from the capital Dhaka .
Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in April 2020