The 70-year-old preacher was the West African nation's second recorded case of Covid-19An itinerant Muslim imam from Bangladesh has died in The Gambia after preaching in several other countries, becoming the tiny West African nation's first coronavirus fatality, the health ministry said. The preacher, aged 70, was The Gambia's second recorded case of Covid-19. He arrived from neighbouring Senegal on March 13, the ministry said in a statement dated Sunday and received on Monday. The Bangladeshi visitor was given lodging in the residence of the Bundung mosque in a suburb of the capital Banjul, the statement said. Gambian authorities are also looking for some 15 people who fled from a hotel where they had been quarantined as a precautionary measure after flying in from Britain, the health ministry said.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 23, 2020 15:11 UTC