Nearly half of Wari COVID-19 tests come back positive in three days of lockdown

Almost 50 percent of the people, who gave samples in the first three days of lockdown in Dhaka’s Wari, have tested positive for coronavirus.

Dhaka South City Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor gave the figures on Tuesday.

The traders transferring goods over the makeshift barricade erected at the entry of Old Dhaka’s Wari amid the lockdown enforced in the area for 21 days to stop the spread of coronavirus outbreak.

To put it in context, the average daily rate of infection against the number of tests across Bangladesh is 23 percent.

“We must strictly enforce the lockdown and all must follow the restrictive measures,” he told reporters after a meeting of a committee to implement the lockdown measures.

DSCC workers spraying disinfectants at Old Dhaka’s Wari, the area flagged as red zone, to stop the spread of coronavirus outbreak.

The authorities have put up kiosks to collect samples of suspected COVID-19 patients from the virus hotspots in Wari during the 21-day lockdown that began last Saturday.

Sarwar Hossain Alo, the councillor of the local city corporation ward, said tests on 24 of the 51 samples taken in three days came back positive.