The District Health Directorate on Sunday has confirmed that at least four coronavirus patients left their homes in Thakurgaon to join their workplaces in Dhaka and Rangpur.
Sources at the District Health Directorate said four people, a 45-year-old man from Sadar upazila’s Gobindapur area, and three youths from Haripur upazila, tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday, reports UNB.
The local health authorities found none of them at home as three of them went to Dhaka and another to Rangpur to attend their respective jobs, sources said quoting family members on Sunday.
The samples were collected from the infected people on June 4, and the reports came on June 13, the sources added.
Thakurgaon Civil Surgeon Dr Md Mahfuzar Rahman said 159 people were infected in the district so far, while two of them died from Covid-19.
New samples of 47 people were also sent for coronavirus testing, he added.
Bangladesh on Saturday reported a record new 3,471 coronavirus cases and record 46 deaths in the span of 24 hours until Saturday morning.
The country has so far reported 84,379 coronavirus cases and 1,139 deaths.
