Staff Reporter :At least ten Bangladeshi nationals have been tested positive with the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Singapore, according to Singapore based The Straits Times on Thursday. However, they are out of danger, Bangladesh High Commissioner to Singapore Mahbub Uz Zaman told a transnational news agency. “We have been informed on Wednesday by the Ministry of Health of Singapore that of those tested positive, as of 12 noon on August 30, six are Bangladeshi nationals,” he told the news agency by email.”We have also been informed that the patients are presented with mild symptoms and have either recovered or recovering. We are in touch with the Ministry of Health in this regard,” Zaman said. The national daily said, of the 115 cases tested positive for Zika virus infection so far, 57 are foreigners who live and work in Singapore, the Ministry of Health said on Thursday.There are 15 nationals from Indian, ten from Bangladesh, six from Malaysia and one each from Indonesia, Myanmar and Taiwan.”All had mild illness. Most have recovered while the rest are recovering well,” said the Ministry of Health.A Malaysian woman living and working in Aljunied was identified as the first known case of a person being infected locally on Saturday.While the symptoms of Zika – fever, rash, joint or muscle ache, red eyes or a headache – are mild for most people, it can cause birth defects in babies if their mothers are infected during pregnancy.
