Locals later got him admitted to the Chandpur General Hospital, its Resident Medical Officer Suja-ud-Daula said. The man managed a leave after catching fever and returned somehow to his ancestral home, where he has a room, in East Gopalkandi village under Sadullapur union on Saturday morning amid a nationwide lockdown. As the members of the family denied him entry after hearing about his sickness, the widower went to the home of his daughter’s in-laws in a nearby village, the doctor said. As he was sick, his daughter’s in-laws dumped him on a ground from where the health workers took him to the hospital on being informed by the locals, MatlabNorth Upazila Health and Family Planning Officer Nusrat Jahan Methane said. The elderly man was not very sick but the medical workers would collect his samples for coronavirus test on Sunday as he returned from an affected area, Chandpur Civil Surgeon Shakhawat Ullah said.

Source: bd News24 April 18, 2020 22:52 UTC