Staff Reporter :
Four new cases of coronavirus infection have been found in Bangladesh.
They were diagnosed in hospitals with coronavirus infection, said, Professor Abul Kalam Azad, Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services on Thursday.
Three of them were diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the DG said while addressing a press briefing in his office at Mohakhali in the capital in the morning.
He said, a 22-year-old woman, a 32-year-old man and a 65-year-old man are the new patients.
“All of them are members of the family of one Italy-returnee person”, the DG said.
Among the trio, the woman showed only minor symptoms. She is under local quarantine, the Director General said.
The other two have been hospitalised.
Another case of coronavirus was detected in Chuadanga, ASM Maruf Hasan, Civil Surgeon of the District, said at a press conference on Thursday afternoon. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country is now 18.
The person diagnosed with coronavirus in Chuadanga had returned from Italy on March 12, said the Civil Surgeon of Chuadanga.
The patient has been kept in quarantine, he said. Virus transmission has not yet reached the level of community-transmission, the DG of DGHS said.
The total number of tests conducted by Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) so far is 366. In the last 24 hours, 25 tests were done. The DG also said that test facilities will be extended to all divisions in the country except Barishal.
The DG said that a total of 500 new personal protective equipment (PPE) were supplied to Dhaka Medical College Hospital and 1,000 were supplied to Chattogram Medical College Hospital.
The collection of one lakh test kits and five lakh PPE is under process, he said.
