‘Curbs on movement’ in Tolarbagh
Restrictions were imposed on movement in Tolarbagh of Mirpur after a neighbour of a deceased Covid-19 patient passed away yesterday evening, said local MP Aslamul Haque Aslam.
Earlier in the morning, the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) had collected the victim's samples for tests.
"We have not enforced a lockdown, but we have restricted movement for the well-being of other residents," MP Aslam told The Daily Star.
Aslam said he was informed that the victim had gone to a mosque with the man who had succumbed to Covid-19 on Saturday.
Meanwhile, a UK-returnee, who was put in isolation at a Sylhet hospital with coronavirus symptoms, died early yesterday.
The woman, aged around 61, breathed her last in Sylhet Shaheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital around 3:30am, said Civil Surgeon of Sylhet, Premananda Mandal.
She returned from London on March 4 and was suffering from fever, cough and breathing problems for the past 10 days, the civil surgeon said.
On March 20, she was admitted to the hospital and was put in isolation as her condition deteriorated, he said.
A team of IEDCR collected her sample around 11:30am and would examine it to confirm whether she was a Covid-19 patient, said Debapada Ray, director of health at Sylhet division's Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) office.
The body of the woman was buried at a graveyard near Manik Peer Mazar in Sylhet city around 2:00pm under the district administration's supervision.
Officials of health services were present during the burial, and all protocols for an infected patient was maintained as per the instructions of the government, Debapada said.
The family members of the woman were kept in home quarantine and an executive magistrate was tasked to ensure it until the test report of the woman was ready, said Md Abul Kalam, additional deputy commissioner (general) of Sylhet.
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