Coronavirus cases rise to 49 in Bangladesh

One patient was diagnosed with COVID-19 in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 49, the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) announced Monday.

"We've so far tested 1,338 samples. In the last 24 hours, we tested 153 samples and found one positive case," IEDCR Director Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora said at an online press briefing.

Meanwhile, four more patients have recovered. Three of them are above 60 while the newly infected patient is a female aged around 20.

Nineteen coronavirus patients have recovered till date.

Thirty-six people have been released from institutional quarantine in the past 24 hours and 32 are still quarantined. Sixty-two people are in isolation.