The local health authorities confirmed 171 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours till Thursday evening in Barishal, Sylhet and Kishoreganj districts.

Thirteen members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have been infected with coronavirus in Sylhet.

Six interns  of 53rd batch of the Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital (SOMCH) tested positive for coronavirus on Monday night.

A police constable, who returned from Narayanganj, died at Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital with fever on Friday night.   The deceased was identified as Emon, of Khalilpur village in Moulvibazar Sadar upazila and a constable of Narayanganj Industrial Police.   Himangshu Lal Roy, deputy director of the hospital, sai he returned home from Narayanganj after he fell sick.   As his condition deteriorated, he was taken to the hospital on April 27 where he died around 8:30pm.   Though he had corona symptoms he was found negative for the virus in a test, said the official.   Meanwhile, a total 115 people tested coronavirus positive in the division on Friday.   Among them, 16 people’s samples tested positive in the lab of Sylhet Hospital and IEDCR confirmed 99 cases.   With the new cases, total patients rose to 226 in the division.   Among them, there died and two made recovery.

Doctors, nurses and staffers of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) are among 18 people who were diagnosed with coronavirus recently.   “Six doctors, eight nurses, a ward master and three staffers of the hospital were infected with coronavirus,” said Dr Kajal Kumar Karmakar of NICVD’s Department of Cardiology.   Meanwhile, three wards of the state of the art institute for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases were shut until Tuesday, he added.   Dr Kajal also informed that 15 doctors and 37 nurses of the hospital were sent to home quarantine.   Expressing fear over coronavirus situation, NICVD doctors said the hospital could be shut in the next few days if this situation worsens.   Bangladesh Doctors Foundation (BDF), a forum of physicians, on Monday said 373 physicians at private and public hospitals got infected during their frontline battle against coronavirus.

Coronavirus cases reached 57 in the division as eight more people  tested positive for the virus till Saturday.

Two more people have tested positive for coronavirus in Sylhet, taking the number of cases to three in the district.   Himangshu Lal Roy, deputy director of Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital, said one from Jaintapur and another from Goainghat upazilas were diagnosed with coronavirus on Thursday.   In the last 24 hours, the samples of 57 people were tested and found two of them positive.   Both of them were taking treatment at the upazila health complexes.   Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital’s Dr Moyeen Uddin died of coronavirus at a Dhaka hospital on Wednesday.

Local administration on Saturday put Sylhet district under lockdown to prevent the spread of highly contagious coronavirus.

An elderly man was fitted with a prosthetic leg at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital free of cost on Tuesday on the occasion of the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.