At least 13 lawmakers from the ruling Awami League have been tested positive for Covid-19 so far since the advent of corona pandemic in the country three and a half months ago.
On Friday, AL lawmaker from reserved seat for women Ferdosi Islam tested positive for Covid-19. Including Ferdosi, 13 AL lawmakers along with a number of their family members have so far tested positive.
Ferdosi told the media that she got her report on Thursday and her family members, including her husband, son and daughter also had been suffering from Covid-19 symptoms.
She said that they all were taking treatment from home isolation at her NAM Bhavan flat.
They are Khandker Mosharraf Hossain for Faridpur-3, liberation war affairs minister AKM Mozammel Huq for Gazipur-1, Mohammed Nasim for Sirajganj-1, Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs minister Bir Bahadur U Shwe Sing for Bandarban, M Abdus Shahid Maulvibazar-4, Moslem Uddin Ahmed for Chittagong-8, Shahiduzzaman Sarker for Naogaon-2, Mohammad Ebadul Karim for Brahmanbaria-5, Mustafizur Rahman Chowdhury for Chittagong-16, Faridul Hoque Khan Dulal for Jamalpur-2, Enamul Haque for Rajshahi-4 and Mashrafe Bin Mortaza for Narail-2.
Of them, Mohammed Nasim died after 12 days on June 12 at a city hospital where he was admitted with COVID-19 symptoms and was later tested positive.
Besides, at least three former lawmakers died of COVID-19.
Former Awami League lawmaker of the Bogura-Jaipurhat reserved seat for women Kamrun Nahar Putul died on May 22, former AL lawmaker from Dhaka’s Mohammadpur-Dhanmondi constituency Mokbul Hossain died at CMH on May 25 and former state minister for finance and planning and Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawmaker Anwarul Kabir Talukder died at CMH on June 14.
