Bangladesh reports another coronavirus case

Bangladesh has reported another case of novel coronavirus, raising the country's tally to 11.

An Italy returnee of Gazipur contracted the COVID-19, the district civil surgeon Dr Md Khairuzzaman told Jago News on Wednesday.

The civil surgeon said 44 Italy returnees were kept in quarantine at Ma and Shishu Kendra Hospital in Gazipur city on March 14. Out of them, eight were sent to Dhaka on suspicion of coronavirus.

Of them, one was found having the virus, Khairuzzaman added.

Earlier, the country's Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control And Research (IEDCR) said that a total of 10 people caught the virus as of Tuesday. Among the affected people, three fortunate recovered from the virus. 

Detection of the coronavirus cases prompted Bangladesh government to close all educational institutions until March 31.

The deadly epidemic, novel coronavirus, first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year, and then spread to at least 165 countries and regions, killing 7,987 people globally.  

The virus, also called COVID-19, infected as many as 198,422 people across the globe, according Worldometer, a website which compiles number of new coronavirus cases and deaths from it.

The website also said around 82, 762 people recovered the virus. 

A total of 80,894 people were infected with novel coronavirus and 3,237 died from in mainland China, the early epicenter of the outbreak. 

Outside China, European country Italy has become the worst-hit by the virus. The 31,506 people contracted the virus and 2,503 died. 

The third worst-affected country by the virus is Iran. Its coronavirus tally reached 16,169 and 988 people lost their lives.