Man dies after week of fever and cough, sample sent to IEDCR

A young man has died in Noakhali after showing symptoms of coronavirus infection, including fever and cough.

Noakhali Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 27 March 2020, 07:17 AM
Updated : 27 March 2020, 07:17 AM

The doctor confirmed his death after being taken to Noakhali General Hospital on Thursday night. The physician said samples have been sent to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, or IEDCR.

After the 23-year-old died, local authorities have put the building he lived in under home quarantine in Begumganj Upazila’s Choumuhani city. Law enforcers have surrounded the building. Though his home was in a village, he used to live in the building.

Begumganj OC Harunur Rashid said the man used to work as an assistant at a dental chamber. He was suffering from fever from the last one week. A doctor was treating him at home.

“His relatives brought him to Noakhali General Hospital on an ambulance after he vomited with traces of blood on Thursday night. There the doctors pronounced him dead.”

The hospital’s resident medical officer Syed Mohiuddin Abdul Azim said he was pronounced dead by the duty doctors after he was rushed in.

“The youth probably died of heart disease.”