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COVID 19-NEW-CASE
3 new coronavirus patients detected: DGHS
DHAKA, Mar 20, 2020 (BSS) – The government today declared that three more persons were infected with deadly coronavirus (COVID-19), raising the number of corona cases to 20 in the country.
“We have detected three new coronavirus patients. Of the three, one is 30-year-old female and the other two are male of 30 and over 70,” Additional Director General of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Nasima Sultana told newsmen at a press briefing at Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) here.
Nasima, however, said the three are members of separate families. Of them, one is an Italy returnee.
The 70-year old man is now at Intensive Coronary Unit (ICU) in a critical condition with co-morbidity, she said.
While briefing the newsmen, the DGHS official urged the people to follow the instructions of World Health Organization (WHO) to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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