Staff Reporter :
A reporter of Independent TV, a private television channel in Bangladesh, has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus.
He is being treated at Dhaka’s Kuwait-Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital after testing positive on Thursday, hospital sources said.
Independent TV has asked 47 of its staff to self-isolate in the wake of the reporter’s positive coronavirus diagnosis, announced its Chief Executive M Shamsur in a Facebook post.
The television channel is in constant touch with IEDCR regarding the matter, said M Shamsur. It has also prepared a list of the 47 colleagues who came in contact with the reporter.
“All of them have been sent to self-isolation. Counting the days from March 26, if no symptoms are found in the next five days, then it would transpire they’re not infected.”
The infected reporter said he isn’t experiencing any physical complications and doing well mentally.
He added that he was attached with fever on March 26 while the IEDCR tested his sample on April 1. The results being positive he subsequently was hospitalised that very day.
“None of my relatives came back from abroad nor have I been in contact with any infected person. But I have been to a few hospitals across Dhaka to gather news on the outbreak. It’s hard to tell if I’d caught the infection during one of those visits,” he said.
“I haven’t been to my village home in the last two months. I live alone in my house and haven’t been in the office since catching the fever.”
Bangladesh has confirmed 61 cases of the coronavirus so far with six deaths from the infection.
Emerging in China’s Wuhan in December, the novel coronavirus rapidly transformed into a global pandemic, spreading to over 200 countries and territories across the globe.
Bangladesh has confirmed 61 cases of the coronavirus so far with six deaths from the infection.
A reporter of Independent TV, a private television channel in Bangladesh, has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus.
He is being treated at Dhaka’s Kuwait-Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital after testing positive on Thursday, hospital sources said.
Independent TV has asked 47 of its staff to self-isolate in the wake of the reporter’s positive coronavirus diagnosis, announced its Chief Executive M Shamsur in a Facebook post.
The television channel is in constant touch with IEDCR regarding the matter, said M Shamsur. It has also prepared a list of the 47 colleagues who came in contact with the reporter.
“All of them have been sent to self-isolation. Counting the days from March 26, if no symptoms are found in the next five days, then it would transpire they’re not infected.”
The infected reporter said he isn’t experiencing any physical complications and doing well mentally.
He added that he was attached with fever on March 26 while the IEDCR tested his sample on April 1. The results being positive he subsequently was hospitalised that very day.
“None of my relatives came back from abroad nor have I been in contact with any infected person. But I have been to a few hospitals across Dhaka to gather news on the outbreak. It’s hard to tell if I’d caught the infection during one of those visits,” he said.
“I haven’t been to my village home in the last two months. I live alone in my house and haven’t been in the office since catching the fever.”
Bangladesh has confirmed 61 cases of the coronavirus so far with six deaths from the infection.
Emerging in China’s Wuhan in December, the novel coronavirus rapidly transformed into a global pandemic, spreading to over 200 countries and territories across the globe.
Bangladesh has confirmed 61 cases of the coronavirus so far with six deaths from the infection.
