378 journos, media staff contract coronavirus
Senior Staff Reporter Published: 18 June 2020, 05:22 PM
A total of 378 journalists and media employees from 99 media houses tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by novel coronavirus, as of Thursday.
Out of them, six died and 98 won their battle against the lethal virus, according to Facebook-based group Our Media, Our Rights.
The group admin and English daily New Age's senior reporter Ahmed Foyez has been compiling the data of coronavirus-infected mediamen since the outbreak started.
Bangladesh on March 8 this year first confirmed its coronavirus cases, and since then it has been seen a sharp increase in both infections and fatalities.
Today the country's total number of COVID-19 cases exceeded 1 lakh, with 3803 newly caught the disease, and death toll rose by 38 to 1343.
