Staff Reporter :
Ashkona Haji Camp may be shut down for keeping returnees from China under special observation. All kinds of official work of Haji Camp and financial transaction of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd, Haji Camp branch, have been limited. The Haji Camp Mosque authority has decided to forbid prayers for any ordinary Muslim.
However, the novel coronavirus has not attacked anyone in Bangladesh until now and there is no need for public alarm, said the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control, and Research (IEDCR), Director Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora.
She said this in a press conference at the IEDCR auditorium in Dhaka on Wednesday.
Dr Flora said, IEDCR took four samples from Wuhan returnees in the last 24 hours and none of them tested positive.
She said that currently 298 of the returnees from China’s Wuhan have been kept under observation at the Ashkona Haji Camp, 11 at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), and three at Kurmitola General Hospital, but none of them carried any symptom of having the coronavirus.
Although not all directives by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the matter can be implemented due to issues of technicality, most of the necessary ones are being followed, she said.
She said: “We are maintaining a distance of at least one metre with one another and we are making sure that they use face masks and wash their hands frequently.”
