Live Correspondent: 3 more persons including a woman were diagnosed with COVID-19 in Bangladesh. Within last 24 hours pushing the number of coronavirus cases to 17.

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) was briefing the media on the latest coronavirus situation at Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) office in the capital’s Mohakhali on Thursday afternoon.

He said, The newly infected patients are a 22-year-old woman, a 32-year-old man and a 65-year-old man. They are all members of the family of one Italy-returnee.

Earlier on Wednesday, Bangladesh confirmed first coronavirus death as about 70-year-old person died.

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