8 June

As many as 6,206 police personnel including 1,828 in capital Dhaka have now tested positive for the deadly COVID-19 in Bangladesh, with 16 of them dead from the disease, AKM Kamrul Ahsan, public relations officer at Bangladesh Police headquarters, said Sunday.

Among the total infected policemen, he said 2,767 have made full recovery until Sunday.

Bangladesh Policemen along with other agencies have been rendering services to ensure social distancing across the country since the beginning of the pandemic in March.

The virus has so far spread to nearly every Bangladeshi district and the number of cases rose to 65,769 with 888 deaths on Sunday.

To quell the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bangladeshi government has planned to reimpose area-wise lockdowns in capital Dhaka and elsewhere in the country, a senior Health Ministry official said Saturday.

xinhua