New Covid-19 cases mostly found in Dhaka
Skip to main content
  • Home
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Features
    • Book Review
    • Brands
    • Earth
    • Explorer
    • Fact Check
    • Family
    • Food
    • Game Reviews
    • Good Practices
    • Habitat
    • Humour
    • In Focus
    • Luxury
    • Mode
    • Panorama
    • Pursuit
    • Wealth
    • Wellbeing
    • Wheels
  • Epaper
  • More
    • Subscribe
    • Videos
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • COVID-19
    • Games
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Wednesday
February 01, 2023

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Home
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Features
    • Book Review
    • Brands
    • Earth
    • Explorer
    • Fact Check
    • Family
    • Food
    • Game Reviews
    • Good Practices
    • Habitat
    • Humour
    • In Focus
    • Luxury
    • Mode
    • Panorama
    • Pursuit
    • Wealth
    • Wellbeing
    • Wheels
  • Epaper
  • More
    • Subscribe
    • Videos
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • COVID-19
    • Games
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
  • বাংলা
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 01, 2023
New Covid-19 cases mostly found in Dhaka

Covid-19 in Bangladesh

TBS Report
05 April, 2020, 10:15 pm
Last modified: 05 April, 2020, 10:19 pm

Related News

  • An elderly couple's lonely battle to save Dhaka's trees
  • US to end Covid-19 emergency declarations on 11 May
  • Covid remains a public health emergency, says WHO
  • Dhaka isn't safe after midnight: DMP 
  • Holiday trips within China surge after lifting of Covid curbs

New Covid-19 cases mostly found in Dhaka

At least seven people from the Dakshingaon area, including six from a single family, tested positive for the coronavirus in the last few days

TBS Report
05 April, 2020, 10:15 pm
Last modified: 05 April, 2020, 10:19 pm
Photo: The Business Standard
Photo: The Business Standard

Authorities have locked down several neighbourhoods in Dhaka's Mirpur and Basabo areas as two-thirds of the people who tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday are from those localities. 

Security has been ramped up in the affected areas, with at least 11 confirmed cases in Mirpur and seven including six family members in Basabo.

Responding to a query, Mirpur Division Deputy Commissioner of Police Mostak Ahmed said, "Security has been beefed up, and so far 40 buildings in Uttar Tolarbagh and a few buildings in Shah Ali Bagh, Kalawalapara, Kafrul, Mirpur 11 and Mirpur 13 have been locked down."

Police have placed a neighbourhood in Dhaka's Mirpur 1 under lockdown on Sunday as an elderly couple tested positive for the novel coronavirus, said Mirpur police station Officer-in-Charge Mostafijur Rahman.

"The couple lived on the second floor of a building in Shah Ali Bagh, and they have been taken to the Kuwait-Bangladesh Friendship Hospital," said the police officer. 

Police personnel have been deployed in the area, and they are asking residents through the public address system to stay alert and remain indoors.

Another elderly person at Uttar Tolarbagh was tested positive for the virus the same day, said an official of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

"The patient was a regular mosque-goer and was suffering from respiratory problems recently. His samples were taken on Friday and was tested positive," said the official.

Meanwhile, at least seven people from the Dakshingaon area, including six from A SINGLE family, tested positive for the coronavirus in the last few days, said Shabujbagh Police Station Inspector (operation) Shah Alam.

"Police have put the Dakshingaon under lockdown after multiple people from the area tested positive for the coronavirus, and the patients were sent to the Kuwait-Bangladesh Friendship Hospital," said the inspector.

The elderly person, who works as a security guard, was infected at first. Then his wife, two daughters and two grand-daughters also tested positive for the virus. The remaining patient is a grocer, said police sources.

Top News

COVID-19 / Dhaka

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • Mugging rife in Tejgaon, murder in Wari
    Mugging rife in Tejgaon, murder in Wari
  • Will reform pledges to IMF work this time?
    Will reform pledges to IMF work this time?
  • Infographic: TBS
    How to redirect inward remittances to formal channels

MOST VIEWED

  • Incepta Pharma abandons Covid vaccine plan
    Incepta Pharma abandons Covid vaccine plan
  • Test tube labelled "Covid-19 Omicron variant test positive" is seen in this illustration picture taken 15 January, 2022. PHOTO: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
    Tighter screening at ports urged as new Covid sub-variant BF.7 detected
  • Test tube labelled "Covid-19 Omicron variant test positive" is seen in this illustration picture taken 15 January, 2022. PHOTO: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
    First case of new Covid sub-variant Omicron BF.7 detected in Bangladesh: IEDCR
  • Illustration: Collected
    Genome sequencing reports of Chinese nationals infected with Covid by Sunday: IEDCR
  • Computer image of a betacoronavirus which is the type of virus linked to Covid-19
    4 Chinese nationals detected with Covid at Dhaka airport
  • Omicron BF7: Land ports still left unguarded
    Omicron BF7: Land ports still left unguarded

Related News

  • An elderly couple's lonely battle to save Dhaka's trees
  • US to end Covid-19 emergency declarations on 11 May
  • Covid remains a public health emergency, says WHO
  • Dhaka isn't safe after midnight: DMP 
  • Holiday trips within China surge after lifting of Covid curbs

Features

An elderly couple's lonely battle to save Dhaka's trees

An elderly couple's lonely battle to save Dhaka's trees

4h | Panorama
Infographic: TBS

How to redirect inward remittances to formal channels

6h | Panorama
Photo: Bloomberg

How the 'madoffs of Manhattan' can unravel Gautam Adani's empire

4h | Panorama
Photo: Collected

Tips to incorporate sustainable construction

1d | Habitat

More Videos from TBS

Alka Yagnik guinness world record

Alka Yagnik guinness world record

3h | TBS Entertainment
Interest rate should be left to market

Interest rate should be left to market

3h | TBS Round Table
Adani’s shares fell sharply after allegation

Adani’s shares fell sharply after allegation

19h | TBS World
Why Messi was blocked on Instagram?

Why Messi was blocked on Instagram?

18h | TBS SPORTS

Most Read

1
Bapex calls candidates for job test 9 years after advert!
Bangladesh

Bapex calls candidates for job test 9 years after advert!

2
Photo: Collected
Energy

8 Ctg power plants out of production

3
Photo: Saqlain Rizve
Bangladesh

Bangladeshi university students identified as problematic users of Facebook, internet: Study

4
Photo: Collected
Court

Japanese mother gets guardianship of daughters, free to leave country

5
Fund cut as Dhaka's fast-track transit projects on slow spending lane
Infrastructure

Fund cut as Dhaka's fast-track transit projects on slow spending lane

6
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo is seen outside the headquarters building in Washington, U.S., September 4, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo
Economy

IMF approves $4.7 billion loan for Bangladesh, calls for ambitious reforms

EMAIL US
[email protected]
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2023
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - [email protected]

For advertisement- [email protected]