Another member of the Bangladesh women’s cricket team tested positive for Covid-19, a BCB source confirmed on Tuesday.  Earlier, two women cricketers tested positive for Omicron, the newest variant of Covid-19. But the third one is not an Omicron case. Read: Omicron also enters Bangladesh; first 2 cases detected All the three are now in isolation at the Mugda General Hospital. “Another member of the team that toured Zimbabwe tested positive,” Jalal Yunus, the chief of BCB media department, told UNB on Tuesday without mentioning whether the infected person is a cricketer or a member of support staff.  “With two cricketers who had tested earlier, all three were shifted to Mugda General Hospital, but they have been doing very well.” He said that the cricketers were shifted to the hospital due to other arrangement of the hotel where they had been staying. The other members of the women team who were found negative in the latest test are in quarantine in the BCB academy building. They will have to undergo another test on December 19.  The women national team has recently returned home from Zimbabwe after the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier was suspended midway due to the surge of the new variant of Covid-19 which was first detected in South Africa.  Read: Bangladesh logs 3 Covid-linked deaths, 295 fresh infections in 24 hrs After arriving in Dhaka, the cricketers had been maintaining the quarantine period in a Dhaka hotel. On December 6, two cricketers tested positive for Covid-19. Two days later, the health ministry revealed that they were infected with the Omicron variant of the virus which were the first cases of Omicron in Bangladesh. 

At least four people were injured in a fire that broke out at Mugda Medical College and Hospital on Thursday. Duty officer of Fire Service and Civil Defense Khaleda Yeasmin said the fire broke out on the fifth floor of the hospital around 12.30 pm. On information, seven firefighting units  rushed to the spot and brought the fire under control. Read: Fire at Dhaka University’s Sufia Kamal Hall The fire fighters extinguished the blaze around 2:10pm. Lima Khanam, duty officer at the fire service and civil defense headquarters control room, said at least four people were injured in this fire incident and they were sent to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.

Former secretary M Bazlul Karim Chowdhury died from coronavirus at Mugda General Hospital in the capital on Sunday morning.