Five of a family test coronavirus positive in Tangail

Five members of a family have tested positive for coronavirus in Tangail's Sakhipur upazila, reports UNB

Tangail's civil surgeon Md Wahiduzzaman said they were informed from Dhaka on Thursday night that the five members of the family have been infected with coronavirus.

Upazila health and planning officer Abdus Sobhan said vegetable vendor Ripon Mia of Langunia village was found infected with Covid-19 on Wednesday.

Later, samples of his wife, two sons and a daughter were collected for coronavirus test and the family members were kept in isolation, he said.

All of them were found positive in the test on Thursday, Sobhan said.

The house of the infected people and that of their neighbours were also put under lockdown, he said.

So far, six people have been found infected with coronavirus in the upazila.