Eighteen more people, including a physician,  tested positive for coronavirus in the distirct in the last 24 hours, taking the number of cases to 62 in the district.

A nurse and her daughter tested  positive for coronavirus in Gojaria upazila of the district, raising the total coronavirus cases in the upazila  to eight.

An elderly woman who died with fever and nose sore at Mahakali in Sadar upazila on Tuesday was found to be infected with coronavirus, said, Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer Faruk Ahmed.

A physician of Kishoreganj upazila in Nilphamari was found coronavirus positive in IEDCR test on Tuesday.