Bangladesh, for now, has no more Covid-19 patients as the third patient, among the three infected with coronavirus, has tested negative for the first time after being hospitalized, said IEDCR.
"The person will undergo another test within the next 24 hours. If the result is negative again, we will initiate procedures to release the patient," said Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Director Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora at a press briefing at IEDCR headquarters in Dhaka.
“Now there’s no one in Bangladesh affected with Covid-19,” said Flora.
A day before the briefing at noon on Saturday, the director had said the patient had been found to be positive the day before.
On March 8, IEDCR confirmed its first three patients of Covid-19. The IEDCR on Thursday said two consecutive tests had found that two of them were virus-free.
On Friday, Flora said one of the infected patients, who had fully recovered from the infection, had returned home.
The other recovered individual has not been released upon the family's request, she said.
As other members of the person's family are in quarantine at home, returning home now may cause harm to the individual, she added.
She said nine people were currently in isolation at different hospitals after showing primary symptoms of Covid-19 infection with four others in institutional quarantine.
In the last 24 hours, the IEDCR tested 24 samples that were all negative. A total of 211 tests have been conducted so far.
