3 new coronavirus cases detected in Chattogram

Three more people have been tested positive for coronavirus in Chattogram.

A readymade garment worker and a banker are among the three, taking the number of confirmed cases in the port city to five, reports UNB.

The RMG worker works at a factory on Sagarika road while the banker from Sitakunda was posted in Narayanganj. The third patient, a woman, is a resident of Halishahar.

They are aged between 40 and 50 years.

Detection of new cases has prompted the local administration to put eight houses and three shops under lockdown, UNB quoted Hasan Shahriar, Chattogram divisional director of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), as saying on Wednesday night.

He said they collected 60 samples for test on Wednesday and three of them turned out to be positive.

The authorities locked down two houses in Halishahar and Pahartali and six more in Sitakunda around midnight to prevent further transmission of the virus.