Cop tested positive for COVID-19 after death

Another policeman died from coronavirus while performing duties in Chattogram.

Md Mukhlesur Rahman, constable of Chattogram court police was taken to Chattogram Medical College around 3:00am on Tuesday with the symptoms of COVID-19, but within two hours he was dead.

Posthumously, his sample tested positive for the coronavirus, said Subrata Banarjee, inspector of court police.

With the death of the constable Mukhlesur, a total of 10 policemen across the nation have died from the virus infection.

Mukhlesur left behind his wife, three daughters and a son.

His body was buried at the family graveyard at Tamta village of Shahrasti upazila in Chandpur district.