IEDCR reports five new cases
The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research yesterday reported five new cases of Covid-19. Three of the five were cases of community transmission.
This takes the total confirmed cases in the country to 44.
Yesterday, the IEDCR urged people who left Dhaka in recent days to be in home quarantine.
"Of the five patients, one recently returned from abroad, three got infected locally. We are unsure how the fifth person got infected," Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director of IEDCR, said in her daily briefing via videoconference.
Out of the 44 coronavirus patients in the country, 11 recovered and were released from hospitals. Five died and 28 are being treated.
TEST FACILITIES EXTENDED
Prof Flora yesterday said coronavirus infection testing facilities were now available at Institute of Public Health (IPH), Dhaka Shishu Hospital, and Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases in Chattogram.
"Such facilities will be initiated within days in divisional headquarters too," she added.
INFECTED ABROAD
At least 65 Bangladeshi expatriates living in different countries have been infected and five of them have died.
The five Bangladeshis died in four countries, including the US.
Of the infected, most were in Italy and Spain.
2 DEATHS SPARK PANIC
In Khulna and Khagrachhari, two people died reportedly showing Covid-19 symptoms yesterday.
They had not been tested but panic gripped the localities following their deaths, reports our correspondents there.
A 45-year-old man died in Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) with fever and breathing difficulties. He was from Helatala area in the city.
ATM Monzur Morshed, director of KMCH, said the patient had been in the same ICU of a hospital in Dhaka where a coronavirus patient had died.
The patient was advised to be in home quarantine after being released from the hospital in Dhaka.
Monzur said the patient did not follow the advice and had tried to hide the information from doctors at the KMCH.
He said they were in touch with the IEDCR about having the deceased tested. Over 15 doctors, nurses, and helping hands of KMCH were sent on home quarantine.
In Khagrachhari, a 20-year-old worker of a Chattogram ship-breaking yard died with coronavirus infection-like symptoms at Matiranga upazila early Wednesday.
Panic gripped the area after his death. Family members buried him within hours of his death instead of cremating him according to his religion.
"We asked other family members and locals of the area to be in home quarantine," said Bivishan Kanti Das, Matiranga upazila nirbahi officer.
"We couldn't collect his blood sample as we have no protective gear," said Khayrul Alam, Matiranga upazila health and family planning officer.
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