Eleven doctors and as many nurses of Jashore General Hospital were sent home to be in quarantine on Wednesday after they came in close contact with coronavirus patients, UNB reports.
Resident Medical Officer Dr Arif Ahmed said the doctors and staffers of the hospital were sent for a 14-day quarantine after two patients of the hospital tested positive for coronavirus.
Dr Dilip Kumar Roy, supervisor of the hospital, said the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) and medicine ward of the hospital were put under lockdown and the patients receiving treatment there were shifted to other wards.
“The samples of the doctors and nurses will be collected soon for testing,” he said.
According to Bangladesh Doctors Foundation (BDF), a forum of physicians, 440 doctors were infected with the virus as of Wednesday.
Bangladesh has so far confirmed 7,103 coronavirus cases and 163 deaths.
