Coronavirus: 16 Interns Infected at SOMCH

Six interns in the 53rd batch of the Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital (SOMCH) tested positive for coronavirus on Monday night.

Dr. Anisur Rahman, Assistant Director, District Director General of Health Services, said samples of 16 interns had been tested in Dhaka.

Earlier on April 24, 78 SOMCH interns were sent to quarantine after one of their colleagues tested positive for coronavirus.

Before that, a total of 44 health workers, including 19 physicians, were also sent to the hospital for quarantine on 13 April.

On April 15, Dr. Moyeen Uddin, Assistant Professor at the Medicine Department of the Hospital, died of coronavirus in Dhaka Hospital as the first physician in the country.

Bangladesh recorded 10,143 cases of coronavirus and 182 deaths on Monday.

According to information from Bangladesh Doctors Foundation (BDF), a research forum, as of Monday, 565 doctors were diagnosed with coronavirus while treating patients.

Besides the physicians, 854 members of the police who served for the protection of social isolation were infected before Monday.