A Bangladeshi youth who returned from China three days ago, got admitted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on Wednesday.
Tauqir Islam, a resident of Sujapur village of Dinajpur’s Fulbari upazila, returned home on Monday.
On Tuesday, he had a fever, cold and complained of chest pain.
He has been kept at the RMCH Corona Unit of Isolation Ward.
Two other Bangladeshi students recently returned from China. Samples of Tashid were sent to IEDCR but tests confirmed that he was not infected. On the other hand, Al-Amin was sent to Kurmitola Hospital in Dhaka.
The novel coronavirus, which emerged from China’s Wuhan, has infected more than 45,000 people and killed over 1,100 others so far.
The government has confirmed that two Bangladeshis in Singapore have tested positive for coronavirus.