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Fifth Bangladeshi infected with coronavirus in Singapore

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A worker scans a customer’s mobile phone for payment at a checkout counter inside a supermarket, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Beijing, China on 15 February 2020. Photo: Reuters
A worker scans a customer’s mobile phone for payment at a checkout counter inside a supermarket, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Beijing, China on 15 February 2020. Photo: Reuters

Another Bangladeshi worker in Singapore has been infected with coronavirus, renamed as COVID-19, raising the number of Bangladeshis who contracted the virus there to five, reports news agency UNB.

Singapore health ministry on Saturday said the latest Bangladeshi victim is a ‘work-pass holder’, aged 26.

The victim has no recent travel history to China. He is linked to the cluster at Seletar Aerospace Heights construction site, it added.

Earlier, four Bangladeshis were infected with virus in Singapore. None of them had a travel history to China.

A man wearing a face mask crosses a road, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Beijing, China on 15 February 2020. Photo: Reuters
A man wearing a face mask crosses a road, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Beijing, China on 15 February 2020. Photo: Reuters

The viral outbreak that began in China has so far infected at least 68,500 people globally and killed 1665 others, according to figures released early Sunday.

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