Volunteers carrying the corpse of a COVID-19 victim for burial at the graveyard in Dhaka's Khilgaon Taltola on Saturday. Assistant Professor Mahbubur Rahman, who is working as the focal person of the hospital’s COVID-19 team, confirmed that the banker had tested positive for the respiratory disease. A number of bank officials have contracted the coronavirus as the banks are operating for limited hours amid a nationwide shutdown over the outbreak. City Bank officials said the victim had been suffering from cold, cough and fever for several days and got his samples tested for coronavirus twice but the tests came back negative. City Bank in a statement mourned the official and offered condolences to the family.

Source: bd News24 April 26, 2020 14:03 UTC