Staff Reporter :
Two more persons have tested positive with coronavirus (Covid-19) in the country in the past 24 hours, taking the number of the confirmed cases to 51, according to the IEDCR.
Contrarily, six more persons have recovered from the coronavirus infection. “One of the six is above 70, four are around 30 and another is aged 40. Four of the six newly-infected patients are males and the rest are females, including one nurse”, said Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora, Director of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), in a briefing in the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in Dhaka.
“In the past 24 hours, IEDCR has tested 140 samples and two of them were found positive. So far, 1,602 people had been tested,” said IEDCR Director Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora in an online press briefing. Both male patients are 57 and 55 years old.
“One of the newly-infected is a Saudi Arabia-returning while we’re still collecting information about another who had no travel history,” said Prof Flora.
The IEDCR Director assured that those who died recently in different places of the country with coronavirus-like symptoms were not infected.
“We’ve collected samples from the bodies of those and upon testing none was found positive. So we shouldn’t think that it is a COVID-19 case only if someone dies with fever,” she said.
No new death from Covid-19 was confirmed across the country in the past 24 hours keeping the total death toll at five.
Currently, 75 people are in isolation and 38 are in institutional quarantine, she said.
The IEDCR hotlines received 2509 calls in the past 24 hours regarding the Coronavirus.
Earlier, DGHS Director (MIS) Dr Md Habibur Rahman said the testing for identifying coronavirus infection will be carried out from 28 organisations till April 20.
He said also the government currently has 334,270 PPEs and 99,000 test-kits in stock.
The global death toll from COVID-19 disease caused by coronavirus jumped to 37,814 as of Tuesday.
It has so far infected 785,712 people around the world, according to worldometer.
Of them, 582,292 are currently under treatment, while 29,488 are in critical condition.
So far, 203,420 cases had outcomes and of them, 165,606 (81 percent) recovered.
