5 die after showing Covid-19 symptoms

At least five people died in different districts from what looked like coronavirus on Sunday night and yesterday.

Two of them travelled from one district to another in recent days with fever and breathing difficulties.

Officials are testing all of them for coronavirus and have placed their homes under lockdown. People who came in contact with them were asked to quarantine themselves.

A 60-year-old man died at Shariatpur Sadar Hospital's isolation unit yesterday morning after suffering from fever and breathing difficulties for a few days, hospital Superintendent Munir Ahmed Khan told The Daily Star.

The man would be buried according to World Health Organisation guidelines, he said.

At a tea garden in Moulvibazar's Juri upazila, a 20-year-old man died yesterday morning after suffering from fever, persistent cough and breathing problems for a few days, Upazila Health Officer Samarjit Singha told our correspondent in the district.

Another 20-year-old man died at home in Lakshmipur's Ramgati on Sunday night, our Noakhali correspondent reported quoting Health Officer Abdur Rahman.

He died with fever and breathing problems, Rahman added.

In Kurigram's Ulipur upazila, a 37-year-old man died at home with fever, sore throat, headache and cold on Sunday night.

The man recently travelled to the upazila from Tangail with the symptoms, Civil Surgeon Habibur Rahman of Kurigram told our Lalmonirhat correspondent.

In Dinajpur's Khansama upazila, a 60-year-old brick kiln worker died Sunday evening soon after reaching home from Narsingdi.

He was suffering from fever, cold, cough and breathing problems, UNO Ahmed Mahbub-ul-Islam said, quoting family members.