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Sylhet-3 MP Samad dies from coronavirus

Sylhet-3 MP Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury has died of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus.

He breathed his last around 2:20pm on Thursday while undergoing treatment at United Hospital in the capital, the lawmaker's personal secretary Zulhas Ahmed confirmed.

MP Samad tested positive for coronavirus on Monday, about a month after he had received his first dose of the vaccine on February 10.

Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury was born in Sylhet on January 3 in 1955.