Another Bangladeshi citizen, who arrived in Dhaka from China on February 1, has been taken to Dhaka's Kurmitola General Hospital from Ashkona Hajj camp for abservation.
The patient was taken to the hospital on Sunday night, Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control And Research (IEDCR) Director Dr Meerjadi Sabrina Flora told Dhaka Tribune.
She said the patient has been kept under observation.
On February 1, a special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines brought back 316 Bangladeshi citizens stranded in Wuhan, the epicentre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
Among the returnees, 312 were returnees from China, including three infants, and four were physicians who were sent from Bangladesh.
Where are the other returnees?
Of them, ten were taken two hospitals in Dhaka-- Kurmitola General Hospital and Combined Military Hospital (CMH) -- for observation as they were running fever.
The health officials ran tests on the 10 returnees in order to determine whether they have been infected with the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). After test, it was confirmed that none of these returnees were infected.
Later, seven of them were taken to Ashkona Hajj camp in Dakkhinkhan, Dhaka from Kurmitola hospital and kept with other returnees from China. The returnees will be kept under observation for a period of 14 days.
The total number of deaths from the coronavirus epidemic in China rose to 361 as of Monday. The number of new confirmed infections in China rose by 2,829, bringing the total to 17,205, reports Reuters.
At least another 171 cases have been reported in more than two dozen other countries and regions, including the United States, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong and Britain.
Global health emergency
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency as the death toll from a new Coronavirus reached 213 on Friday.
The virus is believed to have originated late last year in a food market in Wuhan that was illegally selling wildlife.
New cases are being reported every day around the world, spurring cuts to travel, outbreaks of anti-China sentiment in some places and a surge in demand for protective face masks.
Medical experts say the rising number of human-to-human transmissions outside China suggests a greater potential for the virus to spread further.
Statistics from China indicate that just over 2% of people infected have died, suggesting that the virus may be less deadly than the coronaviruses behind 2002-2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
