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CORONA-LOCKDOWN-RAJSHAHI (with picture)
43 families on lockdown after coronavirus detection in Rajshahi
RAJSHAHI, April 13, 2020 (BSS)- Local administration has kept 43 families on lockdown
following a person was confirmed ascoronavirus (COVID-19) positive in the district for
the first time.
Simultaneously, samples of 10 persons, who came in contact with the Coronavirus positive,
were collected and the infected person is now undergoing treatment from his house at
Bogurapara village under Puthiya upazila of the district. He came to his house from his
workplace in Narayanganj on Wednesday last.
Upazila Health and Family Planning Officer Dr Nazma Akter said he was confirmed as a
coronavirus positive on Saturday afternoon.
After a shortest possible time, 43 families kept on lockdown debarring all the family
members from going out and entering into those.
She said employees of two medicine shops and a filling station were sent to home
quarantine besides taking necessary measures of ensuring health rights protection of the
infected person and his other family members.
“We have taken all-out measures of combating the coronavirus spread from the infected
person to others,” said Upazila Nirbahi Officer Muhammad Waliuzzaman, adding loudspeakers
in the nearby mosques are being used to generate awareness among the public in general in
this regard.
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