Child dies from coronavirus in Dhaka hospital

NEWS DESK

A seven-year-old child has died while undergoing treatment for the coronavirus at a government hospital in Dhaka.

The girl was admitted to the intensive care unit of Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital with coronavirus symptoms and died on Friday night, said Dr Shihab Uddin, the coordinator of the hospital. www.thefinancetoday.net reports.

“The child was in a very poor state of health. She had kidney problems from her childhood and the organ was functioning poorly,” he said, adding that those who have such comorbidities are suffering the most from the coronavirus disease.

The child’s body was handed over to Al-Markazul Islami on Saturday morning for burial, he said.

The infant mortality rate is said to be low among the coronavirus patients.  Previously, a six-year-old child died in Chattogram on April 13 from the same virus disease.

Bangladesh reported its first three cases of the coronavirus on March 08. Since then, the number of infections has gradually climbed as the government expanded testing for the virus.

As of Friday, 4,689 people have tested positive for the coronavirus disease in Bangladesh with the number of recorded deaths climbing to 131, according to government data.