Our Correspondent :
Some 231 Russian workers contracted Covid-19 at at Ruppur Nuclear Power Plant under Ishwardi upazila in Pabna district.
Of the infected, 144 were admitted to four hospitals in Pabna and Rajshahi districts while 67 were brought to Dhaka for better treatment. Dr Mohammad Fakhrul Islam, medical advisor (Russian desk) of the power plant project, confirmed the matter.
He said about 3,600 Russians work at the project.
Some 300 of them were given Russia-made Sputnik V Covid vaccine in the fist phase while 1,300 in the second phase. Ten of the infected persons got vaccination, he added.
