College student suffering from fever, cold dies

A college student, suffering from fever, cold and respiratory problems, died at his residence at Narayanpur village in Satkhira sadar upazila early Friday, reports news agency UNB.

The deceased was identified as Hasan Ali, 20, a second year student of Jhaudanga College.

Irad Ali, a member of Balli Union of ward No. 6, said Hasan had been suffering from fever, cold, and respiratory problems for the last 6-7 days.

The deceased’s family members said they gave him medicine after consulting a village doctor but it didn’t work and he breathed his last around 12:30am.

Civil surgeon Hossain Shafayet said a medical team was sent to the spot but they found that he had no coronavirus-like symptoms.

The samples of the victim will be sent to the IEDCR if the family agrees, he said.

A total of 49 more overseas returnees were put into home-quarantine in the district in the last 24 hours. With this, a total of 2,893 people have been kept in home-quarantine so far in the district while 696 were released from home-quarantine.