Two Bangladeshi coronavirus patients recover from infection: IEDCR
Dhaka/IBNS: Two of the three Bangladeshis, who tested positive for the novel coronavirus, have now recovered from the infection, officials said on Wednesday.
No new cases of the virus were detected in the country, Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research or IEDCR Director Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora confirmed to bdnews24.
The first confirmed cases of coronavirus in the south Asian country was reported on Mar 8.
Among the patients, two had recently returned from Italy while the other was a relative of one of the returnees, reported bdnews24.
Addressing a press conferencne, Flora said the patients who were subjected to a second set of tests for the virus, among them two of them showed negative results.
"I can give you some good news. Yesterday we ran a second test on the three patients. The results for two of them came back negative. Patients can be discharged if they test negative for the virus twice," she said.
A total of eight suspected coronavirus patients are in 'isolation' at different hospitals in the country, she said.
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