Ramesh Chandra Sen, a former minister and MP from Thakurgaon-1 constituency, tested positive for Coronavirus on Wednesday but he has doubts over the test report.

Sumona Haque, wife of former captain of Bangladesh cricket team Mashrafe Bin Mortaza,  also tested positive for coronavirus after he was infected with the virus.   Golam Mortaza Swapan, father of Mashrafe, said Mashrafe’s wife was infected with coronavirus and they got the report on Tuesday.

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.

The number of confirmed coronavirus patients continued to soar in Bangladesh as the health authorities reported 552 new cases and five deaths in the last 24 hours until Saturday morning.

Two more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours till Friday, taking the death toll in the country to  170.

Two people including a child tested positive for coronavirus in the district for the first time on Thursday.   Bhola Civil Surgeon Ratan Kumar Dhali said a young man aged about 22 of Manpura upazila and an eight-year-old girl of Borhanuddin upazila were diagnosed with Covid-19 in the district.   Manpura Upazila Health Officer Dr Mahmudur Rashid said the young man, a hotel employee,  came from Dhaka recently and he had no symptoms. But suspecting his travel history, the authorities concerned collected his sample and sent to Barishal for test.   According to the civil surgeon office, samples of 223 people were collected in the district and of them 221 tested negative.

Fifty-eight staff of health department and 10 policemen are among 161 people who have tested positive for coronavirus in Gazipur.   The local administration put all markets under lockdown but it could not deter the people from carrying out their usual business. Some markets are operating like they do under normal circumstances. Especially the low-income people are not following the rules.   Besides, hundreds of readymade garment workers are seen holding demonstrations and processions to press for various demands.   Many people have been facing difficulties as bank services have been shut due to the outbreak of coronavirus.   But a number of locals said the government-announced shutdown has had very little impact as people continue to flout rules of social distancing and staying indoors.