Three suffering from cold, fever and breathing problems died in isolation unit of Satkhira General Hospital on Sunday.

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.

A six-month-old baby suffering from cold, fever, cough and pneumonia died at the Isolation Unit of Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) early Saturday.

PRAN-RFL group, a local business corporation, has prepared an isolation unit at the Amjad Khan Chowdhury Memorial Hospital to provide treatment of coronavirus or COVID-19 infected patients in Natore.

A seven-month-old baby, who was at the isolation ward of Kuahtia 250-bed General Hospital, tested negative for coronavirus and returned home on Sunday with its parents.   Civil Surgeon HM Anwarul Islam said the baby tested negative for coronavirus and the baby is now doing well.   Earlier on Friday, a technologist of IEDCR collected samples from two people including that of the baby and both tested negative for coronavirus, said Anwarul Islam.   The hospital authorities discharged the two from the hospital.   Tapash Kumar Sarkar, resident medical officer of Kushtia General Hospital, said a couple from Kalishankarpur in the district town brought the baby to the hospital with fever and cough on March 23.   As the baby’s condition was deteriorating at the hospital, the authorities concerned interrogated the couple.   After interrogation, they came to know that baby’s father returned home from Singapore on March 9.   Later, the baby was kept at the isolation ward of the hospital on Thursday last suspecting  it  coronavirus patient.    

Amid growing number of self- or home-quarantined people who are coming from abroad, the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) on Wednesday said that two of the three patients diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease associated with the 2019 novel coronavirus, have almost recovered.