Chattogram man tests positive for coronavirus after death
A 69-year-old man from Satkania upazila in Chattogram has tested positive for coronavirus.
The man died with fever, cough and respiratory problems at Chittagong Medical College Hospital on Thursday.
As many as 342 families were placed on lockdown after the Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Disease (BITID) had informed the local authorities about the test results on Saturday night.
Satkania upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) Mohammad Nur-e-Alam, upazila health and family planning officer Abdul Mazid Osmani and Satkania police station officer-in-charge Mohammad Shafiul Kabir visited the deceased’s village home around 12:00am on Sunday and placed the families on lockdown.
A local union parishad member said the man was suffering from fever, cough, cold and respiratory problems.
He was taken to a private clinic in Keranihat on Wednesday where physicians gave advice to take the patient to Chattogram as he had coronavirus-like symptoms.
The relatives took him to Chattogram General Hospital, where he was given primary care. The hospital authorities said they would collect samples from the patient on the next day but the relatives took him to home.
As his condition deteriorated, the relatives took him to Chittagong Medical College Hospital on Thursday evening, where physicians declared him dead and collected samples.
On the following day (Friday), the man was given a ‘normal burial’ in the village graveyard.
Satkania upazila health and family planning officer Abdul Mazid Osmani told Prothom Alo, “We got the information that the deceased was a COVID-19 patient. His home and the locality have been placed on lockdown. Physicians and others of the private clinic in Keranihat that treated him will be asked to stay on home-quarantine.”
Satkania UNO Mohammad Nur-e-Alam said this was the first death of a COVID-19 patient in Chattogram. The area was put under lockdown.
Besides, a red flag has been put up there. Forty five homes of the deceased’s relatives and acquaintances who live in other parts of the upazila and came in contact with him were also locked down, he added.