Four employees of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) have tested positive for coronavirus.
Prof Nasima Sultana, additional director (admin) of the Directorate General of Health Services, confirmed this to media today.
Eight others, including IEDCR Director Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora and Chief of Virology Lab Prof ASM Alamgir, have been sent to home quarantine, in this connection.