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Bangladesh reports 3 more coronavirus deaths, 35 test positive in 24hrs: DGHS

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Post date 11/04/2020
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Three more died of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, DGHS said today.

This is the highest number of deaths in a day so far in the country. The death toll now stands at 12.

Thirty-five people have tested positive for Covid-19 in last 24 hours, Prof Abul Kalam Azad, director general of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said during a briefing.

With this, the total number of infected has reached 123.

Among the newly infected, 11 are 41-50 years old and six are 21-30 years old, said Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), during the press briefing.

Thirty of them are male, she also said.

Dhaka city has the highest number of infected in the country so far. A total of 64 among the 123 infected patients are from here, the IEDCR director also said.

The second highest, a total of 23 infected patients, are in Narayanganj. Among the 35 infected in the last 24 hours, 12 are from Narayanganj, she added.

“There are cases of cluster transmission in Narayanganj,” Dr Meerjady said.

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One more dies, 18 new coronavirus cases: health minister

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Post date 11/04/2020
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One more coronavirus patient has died in the last 24 hours in Bangladesh, taking the total number of deaths to nine, Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said.

Eighteen more people have tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19) in the country during this period, he said.

With this, the total number of confirmed cases is 88.

Three patients have recovered during this period, the health minister said at a press briefing today.

So far, 33 people who were earlier infected with Covid-19 have recovered.

According to the IEDCR, a total of 46 people are in isolation, who are undergoing treatment at hospitals.

The man who died of coronavirus yesterday morning was from Narayanganj, Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), said in a media briefing today.

Of the 18 new patients, three are female, she said. Four are aged between 41 and 50 years, she added.

The first case of coronavirus came from Madaripur district, so the area has been under IEDCR’s supervision, she informed.

Dhaka’s Bashabo and Tolerbagh (in Mirpur) areas are also under IEDCR supervision as residents — 9 and 11 respectively — have been found infected with coronavirus, she told the media briefing.

These 20 people infected recently are cases of cluster transmission, she said, adding that samples of residents of the areas are being collected for tests regularly.

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US coronavirus deaths highest in world exceeding Italy

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Post date 11/04/2020
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US deaths due to the coronavirus surpassed 19,600 on Saturday, the highest reported number in the world, according to a Reuters tally, although there are signs the pandemic might be nearing a peak.

Italy has the second most reported deaths at 19,468 and Spain is in third place with 16,353. The United States has five times the population of Italy and nearly seven times the population of Spain.

The United States has seen its highest death tolls to date in the epidemic with roughly 2,000 deaths a day reported for the last four days in a row.

Public health experts have warned that the US death toll could spike to 200,000 over the summer if unprecedented stay-at-home orders that have closed businesses and kept most Americans indoors are lifted after 30 days.

The stay-at-home orders imposed in recent weeks across 42 of the 50 states have taken a huge toll on American commerce, with some economists forecasting job losses of up to 20 million by month’s end, raising questions about how long business closures and travel restrictions can be sustained.

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Two more coronavirus cases in Chattogram

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Post date 11/04/2020
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The number of coronavirus patients has climbed to seven in Chattogram as two more people tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday night, UNB quoted an official to say.

The district administration locked down the houses of the two new patients in Shib Bari lane under Firingi Bazar and Dakkhin Khulsi at midnight after Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Disease (BITID) confirmed the cases around 9:30pm, said Hasan Shahriar Kabir, Chattogram divisional director of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

One of the two patient is 35 while the other 50, he said, adding that now the total cases in the district has risen to seven.

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COVID-19: Patients steadily increase in hospitals

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Post date 11/04/2020
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With an increase in testing, the number of identified COVID-19 patients is on a steady increase. But no one can estimate where the contagion, the number of identified patients and deaths will end. Every day increasing numbers of patients are being admitted to the hospitals.

The government’s Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) on Friday said that 94 new persons have tested positive for COVID-19 and six had died. The day before, 112 had tested positive and one had died. This had brought the total number of identified patients up to 424 and deaths at 27.

The country had entered the fourth stage of the coronavirus infection and it is spreading rapidly from person to person. In the capital city, the infection has spread to 60 areas and 233 persons have tested positive. The virus has spread to 22 districts outside of Dhaka, with 191 coronavirus patients being identified so far.

No one can estimate when this pandemic will end. Amid this uncertainty, the government declared a general holiday and has extended it further, has locked down certain areas and taken a number of other measures. Experts, however, said that all these measures must be enforced even more strictly.

The laboratories have the capacity to run 4000 tests a day. Yesterday 1,184 tests were conducted and 94 persons tested positive. On the previous day, 905 tests were run and 112 tested positive. If these labs carried out tests to the full capacity, the number of identified patients would more than double.

Former director general of the health directorate FMA Fayez, speaking to Prothom Alo, said that the priority now must be given to quarantine, social distancing and conduct testing of those who have come into contact with coronavirus infected patients. Those identified through contact testing should be kept in quarantine or isolation. If these measures are stringently enforced, the infection rate can be kept lower. There will be less pressure on the hospitals.

Not enough hospital beds

COVID-19 patients in the capital city are being treated at the Kuwait-Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital and the Kurmitola General Hospital. There are 700 beds in total in these two hospitals.

Treatment had initially been carried out at the Kuwait-Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital. The hospital has 200 beds, including 26 ICU beds. With the increase of patients, the Kurmitola General Hospital is also being used. It has 500 beds including 22 for the ICU. There were about 50 COVID-19 patients in one ward of this hospital, according to sources.

There are about 5 or 6 coronavirus patients at the Dhaka Mahanagar Hospital too.

Courtesy:Prothom-Alo

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3 more die of coronavirus, 58 new cases in 24 hours: Health minister

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Bangladesh on Saturday reported three more deaths from coronavirus and 58 new cases on Saturday.

“In the last 24 hours, 58 people tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 482 in the country,” health minister Zahid Maleque said in the daily health bulletin broadcast.

A total of 954 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, he said.

The death toll from coronavirus climbed to 30.

Minister Maleque said Dhaka’s Mirpur, Basabo and Narayangaj have so far reported as the most infected regions of the country.

He urged everyone to stay home.

The global death toll from coronavirus reached 102,789 as of Saturday.

There have been 1,700,870 confirmed cases around the world after the highly contagious disease was first reported in China in December last year, according to worldometer.

Of those infected, 1,221,285 are currently being treated with 49,835 being in serious or critical condition.

The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus crisis a pandemic on 11 March.

Courtesy:Prothom-Alo

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One new dengue patient in last 24 hrs: DGHS

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Post date 11/04/2020
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One new dengue patient was hospitalised in the last 24 hours until 8:00am on Saturday, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), reports UNB.

According to daily update from DGHS, eight patients are being treated at a hospital in the capital.

Since the beginning of this year, 281 dengue cases were reported. Of them, 273 have been discharged from hospitals.

Bangladesh experienced a massive dengue outbreak last year when 101,354 people were hospitalised across the country. Of them,101,037 made full recovery.

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