A young man has been admitted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital on suspicion of being infected by coronavirus. He was taken to the medical isolation ward shortly after his admission on Saturday afternoon. The man was identified as Tajbid Hossain, resident of Domar area of Nilphamary.
Rangpur Medical Hospital’s Additional Director Dr Mokadam Hossain said that Tajbid came to his home at Nilphamari's Domar from China on January 29 after being examined at the airport. He was admitted to Rangpur Medical Hospital on Saturday afternoon after suffering from sudden fever, cough and shortness of breath.
However, doctors are not sure yet whether Tajbid has coronavirus or not. Mokadam Hossain said they have informed the IDCR as they do not have the facility to examine him. Mongla Port poses risk Mongla seaport of Bagerhat is at risk of coronavirus. Foreign ships carrying sailors from different countries including China are anchoring at the port every day. These sailors are freely entering the port without any medical examination.
As a result, local laborers working to load and unload the ships are at risk of contacting the deadly virus from these sailors. Although some primary steps have been taken by the port authority to prevent the virus, local businessmen and laborers believe that is not enough.
According to port sources, on an average 4 to 5 foreign ships anchor at the port every day. These ships carry 30 to 40 sailors each, which makes a total of 150 sailors entering the port daily. It takes the laborers almost 4 to 5 days to load or unload the ships. At present there are 18 foreign commercial ships anchored at the port. Among the sailors, there are Chinese citizens too. Moreover, there are a lot of Chinese citizens working at Mongla EPZ and in different projects in the area. Therefore, the local people are anxious about Coronavirus spreading in the port area through these foreign citizens.
HM Dulal a shipping businessman using the port said, people working at the port including agents, customs employees, immigration police, businessmen and laborers go to the port for work and they are exposed to the contact of these foreign sailors. Although, there is a rule for medical check-up of the sailors it is not being followed, he accused.
No coronavirus patient among Chinese in Ashuganj The district health department placed a Chinese citizen in an isolation at Ashuganj in Brahmanbaria who has visited China recently. However, no symptoms of coronavirus was found in his body, reports the local health department. Besides, as the part of precaution, health examination of 261 Chinese people, who are working at Ashuganj thermal power station and fertilizer factory in Brahmanbaria have been tested.
According to concerned people, the work of medical desk of Akhaura land port is continuing from morning to evening. For the last two weeks, health workers of the medical desk at Akhaura International Immigration have been conducting preliminary health checks and oral tests of the large number of travelers traveling to India and Bangladesh, including alerting them.
The thermal scanner will be able to safely measure fever from two meters away without the contact of a passenger. District Civil Surgeon Doctor Shah Alam said a good thermometer had been brought to Akhaura port for health check-up of passengers. Health workers can measure fever from about one meter away. No Corona virus has been detected so far.
