The number of coronavirus cases is increasing in Bangladesh. Two more people have been diagnosed with Covid-19 infection in Bangladesh, the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) said on Tuesday. With the fresh cases, the number of novel coronavirus-infected patients in the country has risen to 10.
One of the two has been infected with the virus after coming in contact with someone who had returned from abroad, IEDCR Director Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora said while briefing reporters at IEDCR's office in Dhaka. The infected person is undergoing treatment in a hospital and the other patient is in institutional quarantine, she added.
"So far, a total of 16 people have been kept in isolation and 43 remain in institutional quarantine," Sabrina Flora informed.
On March 8, the IEDCR announced for the first time the detection of three Covid-19 patients in Bangladesh. Of them, two were Italy returnees while the other one was the wife of one of them.
On March 14, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said two more novel coronavirus cases were detected in the country. On Monday, the IEDCR announced the detection of three more patients from the same family.