Tuberculosis, a highly infectious disease, remains a major public health threat in the country with 99,000 cases reported in the first six months of this year, data show while an estimated 247 cases per day remain undetected due to asymptomatic condition or lack of access to screening of the disease, icddr,b said.

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R. Miller on Monday visited the 250-bed Tuberculosis (TB) Hospital in the city to see how US government-provided GeneXpert machines can detect COVID-19 within 45 minutes.