2 women taken to KMCH isolation unit

Two women have been taken to the coronavirus isolation unit of Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH), reports UNB.

Shoilendranath Biswas, resident medical officer of the hospital, said one of the women was brought to the hospital by her friend early Thursday with fever.

Observing the symptoms, the sick woman was kept at the isolation unit, he said.

The woman who accompanied the patient was also kept at the isolation unit, the physician said, adding that the number of people in isolation at the hospital has risen to four.

He said samples of the four patients will be sent to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) in Dhaka for diagnosis.

Meanwhile, at latest 126 people were sent to home-quarantined in the district in the last 24 hours, taking the number of quarantined people to 1,674 there.