3 more coronavirus patients identified in country

Three more coronavirus patients have been identified in Bangladesh.

With this, the total number of confirmed cases stands at eight.

Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), came up with the information at a regular press briefing at Mohakhali in the capital on Monday (March 16).

The new patients include a woman and two children. They are family members of one of the two patients detected on Sunday.

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