6 more die after showing Covid-19 symptoms
At least six more people died in four districts with coronavirus symptoms between Monday night and yesterday evening.
Officials have put houses of the deceased under lockdown while their samples were collected for Covid-19 tests.
Among the deceased, one died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Tuesday night.
A 52-year-old man died with Covid-19-like symptoms early yesterday at the isolation ward of Khulna Medical College Hospital.
The man, a resident of Fultola upazila, died an hour after he was admitted to the hospital around 1:00am, our Khulna correspondent reported, quoting Shailendronath Biswas, spokesperson of the hospital.
A 42-year-old man from Baliakandi upazila of Rajbari died while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) with Covid-19 symptoms on Tuesday night.
The man was a hawker and lived in a rented house in Narayanganj, Nurul Islam, civil surgeon of Rajbari said.
The patient was admitted to DMCH on Tuesday as he was suffering from cold, cough and respiratory problems, he said.
The body was buried by the Islamic Foundation as per the guidelines set by the World Health Organization," the civil surgeon said.
At the isolation unit of Bogura's Mohammad Ali Hospital, which is dedicated for coronavirus patients, a 45-year-old man died with Covid-19 symptoms on Tuesday evening.
He had been suffering from fever, cough and shortness of breath since last Friday and died around 5:00pm, an hour after he was taken to the hospital, said Shafique Amin Kajal, residential medical officer of the hospital.
In Satkhira, two people died with Covid-19 like symptoms on Tuesday morning.
One of them was a night guard in Tala upazila and the other a college teacher in Ashashuni upazila, a correspondent from Satkhira reported.
Samples of the deceased and eight of their family members have been collected and sent to Khulna Medical College Hospital for covoid-19 tests, Hussain Shawkat, civil surgeon of the district, said.
A 27-year-old woman died with coronavirus-like symptoms in Jamalpur municipality area on Monday night.
The woman had recently returned home from her workplace in Narayanganj, said Shafiquzzaman, deputy civil surgeon of Jamalpur.
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