Tangail-8 MP Joaherul Islam catches coronavirus
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Awami League MP from Tangail-8 constituency (Basail-Sakhipur) Md Joaherul Islam has been infected with coronavirus.
He was sent to Dhaka on Thursday night, said district unit convener of Chhatra Kalyan Parishad Monir Shikder.
Civil Surgeon of Tangail Dr M Wahiduzzaman said the sample of the MP was collected on July 14 and sent to Dhaka for test and the report came out positive on Thursday.
He was sent to Dhaka for better treatment, the civil surgeon said.
Two brothers killed in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’
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Two suspected drug traders were killed in a reported gunfight with police on Friday morning in Chwakbazar area in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
The deceased are- Md Faruk, 37, and Ajadul Haque, 24, sons of Aminul Haque of Chandanaish area in Chattogram.
Pradeep Kumar Das, officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station, said according to the confessional statements of the two brothers, police took them in a drug recovery drive in the area at around 5am.
As soon as the police team reached the area, drug smugglers fired at law enforcers, triggering a skirmish, the OC added.
He also said that the brothers were injured in the gunfight. They were taken to Teknaf Upazila Health Complex, later shifted them to Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital where the doctor pronounced them dead.
The bodies were kept in the hospital’s morgue, he added.
159 tested positive for Covid-19 in Ctg
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A total of 159 people were detected positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours after testing samples of 950 people at six Covid-19 laboratories in Chattogram district.
There were no death in the whole district by Corona virus in last 24 hours on July 16.
Among the newly detected patients, 108 are from Chattogram city and 51 from different upazilas of the district, hospital sources said.
The total number of infected patients now stands at 12,489 in Chattogram district, Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi, civil surgeon of Chattogram, told BSS on Friday.
A total of 1488 persons were released from the hospital after recovery from Covid-19 infection till Friday, he said.
Dr Rabbi said 12 new Covid-19 patients were diagnosed with the coronavirus at BITID, Chattogram after testing 58 samples in the last 24 hours.
Meanwhile, 44 more new Covid-19 patients were tested corona positive at Chattogram Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) after testing 191 samples during the same period.
“Besides, five Covid-19 patients were identified at CVASU, Chattogram after testing 144 samples,” the civil surgeon said, adding that 40 more new COVID-19 patients were identified at Chattogram University after testing 181 samples in the last 24 hours.
A total of 35 patients were diagnosed with the disease at Private Chevron Lab, Chattogram after testing 135 samples during the period while 19 people were tested positive after testing 224 samples at Imperial hospital.
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The overall flood situation in the district deteriorated further despite receding water level in the river Jamuna.
The flood, which hit the district second time, has affected more than eight lakh people in 625 villages under 51 unions out of 68 unions in the district.
The flood damaged huge properties like crops, roads, houses, educational institutions, tube wells, latrines, bridge ,embankment, temple, mosque and Madrasas.
According to District Relief and Rehabilitation Office sources, a total of 244 houses have eroded completely by the river Jamauna. Besides, flood water also damaged 14,210 houses, 97-kilometer earthen roads, 23-km carpeted roads, 4-km flood protection dam, five bridges, 177 educational institutions, 3,690 tube wells, 3,848 latrines, 569 mosque and Madrasa and nine temples partially.
Department of Agriculture Extension sources said standing crops on 7,577 hectares of land went under flood water. During the last 24 hours, the Jamuna river dropped by 6 cm and was flowing 123 over the red mark (19.50 meter) at Bahadurabad ghat point till 12 on Friday noon.. Besides five persons drowned in the flood water during the time.
District Relief and Rehabilitation Officer Nayeb ALi said some 14,973 people took shelter in 79 flood shelters. The government allotted a total of Taka 25.50 lakh for the flood victims till Friday, he said.
Dewanganj Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Sultana Razia said relief operation among the flood victims are continued. Besides, 1,000 masks were disbursed among the flood victims to prevent coronavirus transmission, 12,000 water purifying tablets were also disbursed among the flood victims, she added.
Razia mentioned that around 1,000 families took shelter in 21 flood shelters under this worst affected upazila.
Civil Surgeon Dr Pronoy Kanti Das said the activities of 71 community clinics of
the district have been shifted to adjacent high land and houses as flood water entered those clinics.
A total of 80 medical teams, equipped with sufficient medicine, saline and water purifying tablets, are working in the flood affected areas to face any eventualities after receding flood water, he added.
Schoolboy’s body found in Rajshahi
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Police on Friday morning recovered the body of a schoolboy from Mohanpur upazila of Rajshahi.
The deceased was identified as Moktar Ali, 16, a tenth grader at Basantakedar High School. He was the son of Joynal, a resident of Chandpur village in the upazila.
Locals said Moktar went out of his house at about 9.00pm on Thursday and had been missing since then. Later, family members saw the body beside a bamboo orchard and found several marks of injury on his body.
Being informed, police went to the spot and recovered the body in the morning.
Mohanpur Police Station OC Moshtaq Ahmed confirmed the matter. Police recovered 20,000 pieces of yaba pills, two local weapons and 11 cartridges from the spot, the OC said.
Copper coin of 1839 recovered in Joypurhat, 6 arrested
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The National Security Intelligence (NSI) and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a joint drive recovered a copper coin of 1839 worth around Tk 50,00,000 and a fake one.
The team also arrested six fraudsters during the drive. The arrested are Md Nurul Islam, 60, former manager of Joypurhat branch of Agrani Bank Ltd, Motaleb Hossain Babu, 62, from Khetlal upazila of Joypurhat, Md Zaher Ali, 48, Md Asaduzzaman, 32, Masum Mia, 25, from Kurigram, and Mahmudul Hossain, 57, from Lalmonirhat.
The team conducted a drive in Joypurhat Govt Girls High School area around 2am and arrested them along with an original copper coin (archeological evidence of 1839) and a counterfeit one.
They also recovered six mobile phones, 12 SIM cards, and four memory cards from their possessions.
They have been selling fake copper coin to people showing them the real one and swindled lakhs of taka from people.
RAB-5 camp company commander MM Mohaimenur Rashid confirmed the matter and said a case is underway to file against them.
Kushtia doctor dies of Covid-19 at BSMMU
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Another doctor died from Covid-19 while receiving treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University earlier on Friday.
Bangladesh Doctors’ Foundation Trust director Mily Dey told New Age that SM Nur Uddin Baki Rumi, an assistant professor of the surgery department at Kushtia Medical College, died about 2:30am.
An alumnus of Chattogram Medical College, Rumi tested positive for coronavirus infection on July 3, a couple of days after he showed symptoms. He was later shifted to BSMMU from Kushtia, she added.
