1 more infected, 4 including 80-year-old recover: IEDCR

Another person has tested positive with coronavirus (Covid-19) in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the number of the confirmed cases to 49, according to the IEDCR.

The new case is a woman in her 20s, said Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), at a briefing in the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in Dhaka.

In addition, four more people infected with the virus have recovered, taking the total number of recovered cases to 19, said the IEDCR official.

Among the four recovered patients, one is a doctor, one nurse and another an 80-year-old, she added.