Telemedicine service was stopped at Lalpur Upazila Health Complex as a health worker tested positive for coronavirus on Monday night.   District Directorate General of Health Services on Monday night confirmed that a health worker of the telemedicine department was infected with coronavirus.   Upazila Nirbahi Officer Ummul Banin Duti said she visited the Upazila Health Complex on Monday night and shut the telemedicine department temporarily.   The infected health worker was sent to institutional health quarantine while samples were collected from the other health workers.   So far, ten people including a doctor and three health workers  were infected in the district.   Altogether 565 physicians, excluding nurses and health workers, got infected with coronavirus while treating patients as of Monday, said Bangladesh Doctors Foundation (BDF), a forum of physicians.   Bangladesh has recorded 10,143 coronavirus cases and 182 deaths as of Monday.   Meanwhile, the country reported its highest daily new coronavirus cases on Monday with the detection of 688 patients.

A physician and a health worker, were infected with coronavirus in the district.   Dr Himangshu Lal Roy, assistant director of Osmani Medical College Hospital, said 13 people were tested positive under Sylhet division on Wednesday. Of them, an intern doctor of the Osmani Medical College and Hospital and a medical staff of Shaheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital were found detected with the virus in the district, he said.   The reports of 134 people were found on Wednesday and of them 13 tested positive. Four people reported positive from Sunamganj, five from Habiganj and two from Moulvibazar districts, he said.

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.