Members of Fire Service and Civil Defence disinfect a street in Dhaka Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka TribuneOf the total 16 infected, one is in home quarantine and the others are in institutional quarantineThree more staff of Fire Service and Civil Defence in Dhaka have tested positive for Covid-19, taking their total number to 16. Two of them are drivers at the Fire Service headquarters, said Deputy Assistant Director (Media) Shahjahan Sikder on Wednesday. His first Covid-19 test after being tested positive recently has come negative, and if the second test comes negative too, he will be released. Results of seven more tests were also due on Wednesday night, said the Fire Service official. Until Wednesday afternoon, health authorities in Bangladesh recorded total 17,822 Covid-19 cases and 269 deaths from the disease.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 13, 2020 12:09 UTC