Staff Reporter: A migrant Bangladeshi worker in Singapore has been infected by coronavirus, according to the country’s health ministry report.
As a first Bangladeshi coronavirus infected person is a 39-year-old man. He was taken to an isolation room at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID).
In a report, Singapore’s The Straits Times said that the worker has no known recent travel history to China.
According to the report, the BD man’s symptoms surfaced on February 1, and he went to a clinic on February 3, and Changi General Hospital on February 5. He was admitted to the intensive care unit at Changi General Hospital on February 7.
He was confirmed to have the coronavirus on Saturday afternoon, and was then transferred to the NCID.
The total number of people infected in Singapore has grown to 43.
Meanwhile, Director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Professor Meerjady Sabrina Flora in her daily briefing urged everyone, especially journalists and doctors, to protect the patients’ privacy.
