The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) on Tuesday said they found two new patients with the coronavirus and released six from hospitals after recovery.
The government’s disease monitoring agency also assured that those who died recently in different places of the country with coronavirus-like symptoms were not infected.
With the latest update, the number of coronavirus patients stood at 51, five died and 25 recovered.
“In the past 24 hours, IEDCR has tested 140 samples and two people have been found positive for coronavirus infection. So far, 1,602 people have been tested,” IEDCR Director Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora said at the online press briefing.
Both of them are male, aged 57 and 55 respectively.
One of them returned from Saudi Arabia. They could not pin point the source of infection of the other person. “We are collecting information about another who had no travel history,” Prof Flora said.
She, however, said of the six newly recovered, one was at his 70s, four were around 30 years old and another is aged above 40. Four male and the rest are female including a nurse.
She requested all not to think that it is COVID-19 case only if someone dies with fever.
The government kept 75 people in isolation currently. Some 38 people are in institutional quarantine.
The IEDCR hotlines received 2509 calls in the past 24 hours related to coronavirus.
About the preparation, DGHS Director (MIS) Dr Md Habibur Rahman said testing to identify coronavirus will be carried out from 28 organisations by April 20.
He said the government currently has 334,270 PPEs and 99,000 test-kits in stock.
The global death toll from COVID-19 disease jumped to 37,814 as of Tuesday. The United States is the current epicenter of the virus.
