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| Rakibul Hasan |
Three more people have been infected with novel corona taking the total infected to 19, According to (IEDCR).
The institute of Epidemiology, disease contril And Research IEDCR at a oress conference on Friday said the infected people had contact with coronavirus patients.
Additional director of directorate general of Health services-DGHS-professor Nasima Sultana at the press conference said one of the infected persons who was in his seventies, Is in a critical condition.
Principal scientific ASM Alamgir said,-We haven-t detected any community transmission of-COVID-19-in bangladesh so far.
Bangladeshis reported the country s first Death from coronavirus on 18-March.
Unb adds: The infected people include two male and one female,Nasima Sultana said.
She urged the overseas returnees stay in separate rooms and refrain from going out of their homes.
on-8-March,the (IEDCR), announced for the first time the detection of three covid-19-patients in Bamgladesh.
The first three bangladesh infected with coronavirus were recovered.
Health minister Zahid Maleque on Thursday said the government will consider lockdown in some vulnerable arear of the country if the coronavirus situation turns worse in the ipcoming days.
On the other hand, bangladeshis has been setting up two quarantine centres-one at the haji camp, Ashkona while another at diadari of Uttatra-to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the Death toll from the coronavirus or (COVID)-19 has reached-10,049-globally as Friday.
It has so far infected 246,467 people around the world, According to worldometer.
Of them,147,935 are currently being treated with 7,389 being in serious or critical condition.
So far, 98,532 cases had outcomes and of them, 88,483 (90 percent) recovered and 10 percent died.
COVID-19 is Affecting 182 countries mand territories around the world and one international conveyance-The Diamond Princess cruise hip harboured in Yokohama, Japan-.
The World health oraanization on 11 March declared the coronavirus crisis a pandemic.
*This report has been rewritten in English by Rakibul Hasan.*
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