5 more die of Covid-19 symptoms
At least five people, including two children, died with coronavirus-like symptoms across the country yesterday.
In Sylhet, A 10-year-old girl died with yesterday. She was from the city's Upasahar area and was taken to a private hospital in the morning as she had been suffering from flu-like symptoms for a couple of days, reports our Sylhet correspondent.
The hospital referred her to the Coronavirus Isolation Centre of Sylhet Shaheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital, suspecting it to be a Covid-19 case, said Dr Premananda Mandal, civil surgeon of Sylhet.
Later, her family members took her to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital in the city, where doctors declared her dead.
Meanwhile, at least four people from Chandpur district died after showing similar symptoms in different places, including Dhaka and Cumilla medical college hospitals, yesterday.
Of them, a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver, aged around 50, died while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, our Chandpur correspondent reports quoting Md Shakhawat Ullah, civil surgeon of the district.
A six-year-old child of Shahrasti upazila died with the same symptoms at Cumilla Medical College Hospital early yesterday, according to the civil surgeon.
On information, the local administration locked down the house of the dead and collected samples from the bodies for the tests, said Shah Alam, officer-in-charge of Shahrasti Police Station.
A 30-year-old man from Matlab Uttar upazila died at his home yesterday noon after suffering from a fever, cold and cough. A team of physicians of the district civil surgeon's office was sent to the victim's house to collect samples from the body.
Another person from the same age-group, from Chandpur Sadar upazila, died after suffering from coronavirus-like symptoms, our correspondent reports quoting Sazeda Begum, a health and family planning officer of the upazila.
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