10-month-old tests positive in Chattogram

A 10-month-old baby have been tested positive for coronavirus in Chattogram.

Seikh Fazle Rabbi, civil surgeon of Chattogram, said the boy, of Joara village in the district's Chandanaish upazila, was one of the four persons who were tested positive in the region on Tuesday.

A total of 140 samples were tested at Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Disease (BITID) on the day, he added.

The 10-month-old boy is the youngest victim of covid-19 in the region. Earlier, a six-year-old was tested positive, the civil surgeon said.

The baby has been undergoing treatment at Chattogram Medical College Hospital since Saturday. After receiving the result, health officials shifted him to Chattogram General Hospital, he added.

Meanwhile, the healthcare workers were trying to identify from whom or where the baby contracted the virus.

"We have come to know that his father is an expatriate working in a Middle Eastern country, but he did not visit the country recently," said the civil surgeon.

Contacted, Dr Jamal Mostafa, focal person of Covid-19 treatment in Chattogram General Hospital, said they collected samples of the baby's mother.

With that baby, a total of 27 coronavirus patients have been undergoing treatment in Chattogram General Hospital, he said.