Youth suffering from cold, fever dies

A young man suffering from cold and fever died while undergoing treatment at Brahmanbaria sadar hospital on Monday night, reports UNB.

The deceased was identified as Al Amin, a rickshaw puller of Charlalpur village in Ashuganj upazila.

Officer-in-Charge of Ashuganj police station Md Jabel Mahmud said Amin was admitted to the hospital with tonsil problem and later had fever and cold.

His samples were collected for coronavirus test, he said.

His house and other houses of the neighbourhood were put under lockdown, the OC said.

So far, 35 confirmed coronavirus cases were found in the district, according to Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR). Two of the patients had died.

Bangladesh reported its first coronavirus cases on 8 March and the first death on 18 March. On Monday, the country’s health authorities said 5,913 coronavirus cases and 152 deaths had been recorded so far.

The global death toll from coronavirus reached 211,537 on Tuesday morning with 3,064,225 confirmed case after disease was first reported in China in December last year, according to worldometer.