BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia has gone through a CT scan for her lungs after running a low fever, following the advice of her physicians.
She went to Evercare Hospital in Bashundhara Residential Area to get the CT scan, and is already gone back home, sources in BNP said.
Her overall condition is good, and the CT scan result is also good, the sources said.
Khaleda Zia gave her samples for Covid-19 test to the icddr,b on Saturday, and the test result came positive on Sunday. She was asymptomatic.
However, she developed a low fever on Wednesday, her medical team said on Thursday, adding that they had decided to perform a CT scan test on her to determine the next course of treatment, UNB reported.
"As a new symptom, she had low fever on Wednesday night with around 100 degrees," said the BNP chief's medical board head Prof Dr FM Siddiqui.
Speaking to reporters at the BNP chief's Gulshan offices following a checkup, he said Khaleda suffered had a fever on Thursday morning as well.
"Since her chest is clear, we think she's stable," the physician said.
He said her sugar level is also under control.
"Today (Thursday) is Madam's seventh day of infection and she's now entering her second week. The complexities of Covid are usually exposed during the second week. That's why we want to be a little more careful," FM Siddiqui said.
He said whether Khaleda would be hospitalized or not depended on the CT scan results.
