Govt Allows 3 Private Hospitals to Test Coronavirus

Three private hospitals--Evercare, Square, and United—have been allowed to conduct coronavirus tests of inpatients.

The government took the decision as the number of coronavirus cases keeps increasing in the country day by day.

Additional Director General (Admin) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Nasima Sultana made the disclosure during a virtual briefing on Wednesday.

However, 8 more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours till Wednesday, taking the death toll in the country to 163.

Besides, 641 more people tested positive for coronavirus during the period, raising the number of such cases in the country to 7,103.

The total number of recovery has risen to 150 as eleven more people have recovered, she said.

In the last 24 hours, several coronavirus testing laboratories across the country tested 4,968 samples, she added.

Earlier on April 16, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) declared the entire country as 'vulnerable zone' to virus infection.