Bangladesh
Health worker tests positive for coronavirus in Jashore
A health worker tested positive for coronavirus at Mujgunni village in Manirampur upazila on Sunday.
Ahsan Ullah Sharifi, Upazila Nirbahi Officer of Manirampur upazila, said the health worker, a resident of Jhapa union, tested positive for coronavirus and his house was put under lockdown on Sunday.
Dr Shuvra Rani Debnath, upazila health and family planning officer, said the staff was taken to the civil Surgeon office by an ambulance for taking decision about his treatment.
Besides, Civil Surgeon of Jashore district Sheikh Abu Shaheen, said samples of 101 people were sent to the Khulna Medical College and Hospital for test. The reports of some people were received today where the health worker tested positive, he said.
ATN News journo tests coronavirus positive; 20 colleagues quarantined
Twenty staff members of ATN News, a private TV channel, have been sent on home-quarantine after one of their colleagues has tested positive for coronavirus.
The journalist of the television channel returned home from abroad on March 21 after attending a one-month training course there, said its Executive Editor Munni Saha.
He went to his residence straight from the airport and maintained a 15-day home-quarantine period, she said.
The reporter started suffering from fever four days after he rejoined office on April 5, Munni Saha said, adding that he later developed cough and body ache.
As he approached the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), they collected his samples from his home on April 10 and he was informed on Saturday night that he had tested positive for Covid-19, she said.
The ATN News executive director said the reporter is now receiving treatment staying in isolation at his home.
She also said they sent 20 staff members who came in contact with him on home-quarantine.
Ex-UP member beaten to death in Gaibandha
A former UP member was beaten to death over land dispute during an arbitration near Saghata Bazar area in Saghata upazila on Sunday.
The deceased was identified as Abdul Hamid.
Officer-in-charge of Saghata Police Station Belal Hossain said the arbitration was held to settle a dispute over a land at noon.
A clash ensued during the arbitration and the rival group members started beating Hamid when he tried to obstruct them, the OC said.
Hamid succumbed to his wounds on the way to hosptial.
Police arrested Nilmoni Chandra and Shyamol Chandra , he said.
Other fugitive killers of Bangabandhu to be brought back: Law Minister
Law Minister Anisul Huq on Sunday said the other fugitive murderers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be brought back to execute the Supreme Court verdict.
“In this year of Bangabandhu’s birth centenary, I promise to bring other fugitive murderers back and implement the Supreme Court verdict on Bangladesh’s soil,” he said.
The Law Minister came up with the remarks in a video message from his residence after the execution of Bangabandhu’s murderer Capt (dismissed) Abdul Majed in the first hour of Sunday.
Expressing pleasure after the execution of Bangabandhu’s murderer Capt (dismissed) Abdul Majed, the minister said “We’ve fulfilled the promise we had made, even if partially, by implementing the verdict of Bangabandhu murder case.”
Implementing the verdict of Bangabandhu murder case in the year of birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is a matter of relief, he said.
Majed was hanged early Sunday, 45 years after the assassination of the country’s founding father.
Five others involved in the killing – Syed Farooq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Mohiuddin Ahmed – were executed in January 2010.
Another killer, Aziz Pasha, met the natural death in Zimbabwe in 2001.
Five other convicted killers -- former Lt Col Khandaker Abdur Rashid, SHBM Noor Chowdhury, Shariful Haque Dalim, Rashed Chowdhury, and Risaldar Moslehuddin -- are in hiding.
Of them, the government knew the whereabouts of Noor Chowdhury, Rashed Chowdhury and Moslehuddin.
According to the government, Noor has been living in Canada and Rashed in the USA.
Modele Group lends helping hand to fight coronavirus
Modele Group, a local garment manufacturer and exporter, has announced an Tk 5-crore integrated initiative to prevent the spread of coronavirus and ensure public security, food and health safety, especially for the people of Narayanganj.
Protect your own areas from outsiders: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged all, including the local administration and local people, to protect their respective areas by not allowing outsiders to be there for a few days, aiming to prevent the coronavirus spread.
Physician among 3 test positive for coronavirus in Chandpur
Three people, including a government physician, tested positive for coronavirus in the district, raising the total number of patients to five.
They are-Doctor Mehedi Hasan, 32, resident medical officer of Matlab Uttar Upazila Health Complex, a 29 years old woman from Matlab Dakkhin upazila, and a 40-year old man from Baharia area of Sadar upazila, who recently returned home from Narayanganj.
After the woman tested positive for the virus her father-in-law ‘s house at Charanlaxmipur village was locked down. She is now undergoing treatment at Bangladesh-Kuwait Maitree Hospital, said Matlab Dakkhin upazila health and family planning officer Dr Golam Kauser Himel.
Civil Surgeon Dr Md Shakhawat Ullah said that IEDCR confirmed on Saturday morning about the positive reports .
Chief Medical Officer Dr Nusrat Jahan of Matlab Uttar Health Complex, said Mehedi got infected while examining an infected patient. Mehedi and tow other patients were sent to Dhaka today, she added.
2 held with 25 sacks of rice in Joypurhat
Police in a drive arrested two people along with 25 sacks of rice meant for sale to the poor at Tk 10 per kg under a government programme from a house at Nimtoli in Khetlal upazila on Saturday midnight.
The arrestees are Tota, son of Tozammel Hossain and Abdul Majid, son of Taslim Uddin of the upazila.
Tipped off, a team of police conducted a drive at the house of Tota and seized the rice sacks, weighing 50 kg each, from the house around 12 pm, said ASM Siddiqur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Khetlal Police Station.
Later, police arrestedTota and his associate Abdul Majid in this connection.
Air Force helicopter makes emergency landing in Rangamati; crew safe
A Bell-212 helicopter of Bangladesh Air force made an emergency landing near Bolipara helipad of Rajasthali camp in Rangamati district on Sunday morning.
Woman dies at isolation unit in Kushtia hospital
A housewife who was undergoing treatment at the isolation ward of Kushtia General Hospital died here on Sunday.
The deceased was identified as Moyna Khatun, 43, wife of Abdur Rahim of Amla Mahdipur in Mirpur upazila.
Taposh Kumar Sarkar, resident medical officer of Kushtia General Hospital, said the woman came to the hospital with fever, cold and respiratory probleml on April 10 and then she was taken to the isolation ward of the hospital where she breathed her last around 11:30 am.
But the hospital authorities are yet to receive the coronavirus test report of the woman, he said.