The government has recorded another death from the coronavirus pandemic.
Briefing reporters, Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Saturday said they also got four new patients in the last 24 hours.
With the latest figure, the number of coronavirus patients rose to 24 in Bangladesh. Of them two died.
The new deceased, aged around 73, had co-morbidities, the minister said, referring to other diseases the person had been suffering from.
He, however, could not tell further details about how he got the infection. A scientist at the IEDCR told Bangladesh Post that they are still finding the source since there is speculation that it might have been a community transmission which means the person got the virus without coming to contact of any infected or any recent returnees from abroad.
The government so far maintained that local transmission is happening in Bangladesh which means that the virus is limited to close contacts of the infected expatriates.
The government made 14 days quarantine of the expatriates compulsory. Local administrators are fining the violators.
Some 50 people are in institutional quarantine and around 14,000 people are home quarantined across Bangladesh.
The health minister said they would identify the expatriates who returned home but are not maintaining mandatory 14 days home quarantine by hiding their information. “We have sent the list to the local administration”.
The government is preparing Sheikh Russel Gastronomy Institute and Sheikh Hasina Burn Unit beside the DMCH for treating the coronavirus patients, he said, apart from exisitng facilities.
Two locations in Mirpur and Uttara have been selected for institutional quarantine.
