Agrani Bank's principal branch put on lockdown

The principal office of state-owned Agrani Bank Limited at capital Dhaka's Motijheel has been put on lockdown following an official tested positive for the novel coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19.

"An official of principal branch of the bank tested positive for coronavirus. That is why lockdown was imposed in the branch on Wednesday," the bank's managing director Mohammad Shamsul Islam told Jago News.

The patient works at foreigh exchange division. His 62 officials were sent to home-quarantine, the MD added.

Activities of the branch was transferred to the bank's Amin Court branch at Motijheel, MD Shamsul also said.

The virus cases in the capital surged by 39 in last 24 hours, making the total to 124, according the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Dhaka, the most populous city of Bangladesh, now has the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the country. 

Bangladesh on Wednesday confirmed 54 new coronavirus cases and three deaths, bringing the country's tally respectively to 218 and 20, the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control And Research (IEDCR) director Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora today said in DGHS bulletin.