A physician of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital died of coronavirus at a Dhaka hospital on Wednesday.
Dr Moyeen Uddin, assistant professor of the Medicine department of the hospital, breathed his last at Kurmitola General Hospital around 6:45am, said Dr Ihtesamul Haque Chowdhury Dulal, general secretary of Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA), UNB reported.
Dr Moyeen Uddin was detected with coronavirus on April 5 as the first case of COVID-19 in the district, Dr Dulal said.
He had been taking treatment staying in quarantine at his home. His family members were also quarantined and Housing Estate area where he had been living was brought under lockdown.
The physician was taken to the isolation unit of Shaheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital in the city on April 7 and later sent to Dhaka the following day.