Sonali Bank official dies of coronavirus, 29 others infected

A senior official of the state-owned Sonali Bank has died of COVID-19 infection in Cumilla.

The official Mahbub Elahi, senior principal officer at the bank’s Motijheel branch, breathed his last at his own home on Sunday night.

According to his colleagues, Mahbub went to his Cumilla residence on 7 May as he started showing symptoms of COVID-19. He was tested positive for the virus on 10 May and underwent treatment at the Comilla Medical College Hospital for some days, they said.

Mahbub came back to his home from the hospital and was staying there, they added.

The bank official is survived by his wife and a one-month-old daughter who are now staying in India’s Chennai for treatment.

With Mahbub’s death, a total of four bank officials – two of the City Bank and one of Rupali Bank – have so far died of coronavirus.

Sonali Bank officials told Prothom Alo that 29 other officials of the bank are also diagnosed COVID-19 positive. Of them, seven are from Rangpur Bazar branch, six from Munshiganj’s Gazaria branch, two each from Dhaka’s corporate branch and wage earners’ corporate branch, among others.