10-year-old dies with coronavirus-like symptoms in Sylhet

A 10-year-old girl died with coronavirus-like symptoms in Sylhet today.
The child from the city's Upasahar area was taken to a private hospital in the morning as she had been suffering from flu-like symptoms for a couple of days, reports our Sylhet correspondent.
The hospital referred her to the Coronavirus Isolation Centre of Sylhet Shaheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital, suspecting it to be a Covid-19 case, said Dr Premananda Mandal, civil surgeon of Sylhet.
Later, family members took her to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital in the city, where doctors declared her dead.
Her sample has been collected for the Covid-19 test, the civil surgeon said.