New Delhi (NVI): Five more positive cases of coronavirus have been reported taking the total number of cases in Bangladesh to 61, according to the United News of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has so far reported six deaths from COVID-19.
Bangladesh on March 8 confirmed the first infections while the first death was reported on March 18, according to the media reports.
Bangladesh’s Health minister Zahid Maleque, through a video-conference, said that the risks were not yet over and everyone should stay home and abide by the government’s directives to maintain social distancing.
The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) has been repeatedly advising people not to go to the hospitals or IEDCR in person but to call its call centres following which they would collect the samples from the patients’ homes, in order to reduce the possibility of the virus spread if the patient is found positive.
