DGHS DG Khurshid Alam tests positive to Covid-19

The Director-general of DGHS, Prof Khurshid, and the Line Director, Mizanur Rahman have both tested positive for Coronavirus.

The Director of Non-communicable diseases Professor Dr Mohammed Robed Amin confirmed the matter to the media.

Dr Md Robed Amin, line director of the directorate's Non-Communicable Disease Control programme, said, “I have had a word with the MIS director. He along with his family members were diagnosed with the disease. Several family members of the DG, too, were infected, along with his PSO. Many who were around him caught the disease.”

On Feb 7, Alam was vaccinated against the coronavirus on the first day of the nationwide immunisation drive. He has now been diagnosed with the infection before receiving the second dose of the vaccine.

Bangladesh is providing the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine produced by Serum Institute in India. One has to take two doses of it.